Author's note. A lot of things happen in this chapter but it should be noted that the kids haven't forgiven Megatron for what he's done to them. However, yelling at him obviously isn't going to change his mind so they'll need to be sneakier. Just in case anyone was worried that they'd just forgotten about everything he'd done to them.
Written by me and the-writing-mew.
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Megatron felt that he cared about nothing else in the universe anymore as he held his Sparklings to his chassis. He would make them love him at any cost, and this time Starscream, Optimus or whoever else would not interfere with him; they WILL love him and cherish him as their right and only creator.
He caressed their helms lovingly, watching them recharge. This was so perfect; the only way it could be even more perfect were if Silverblaze was there.
"You are gods now..." He said before kissing each small helmet and hugged them tighter.
...
Starscream watched the 'family' with worry; he knew the children would not be happy about this; they were supposed to be minicons not full transformers! He was even more worried about their reactions towards their 'sire' because he DID IT in the end... he could imagine many scenarios in where the kids showed their concern about Megatron's actions...
... He didn't wanted to imagine it... it would be horrible.
But something else worried him and he decided to scan his own processor; seeing an off lined femme as if she was alive was not a good thing, even less if she spoke to him and... for Primus' sake... touched him! Starscream hoped he was not going crazy.
And in any case... seeing an offlined bot was a sign of bad luck... right?
Megatron didn't even pay attention to him as he scanned himself, his leader seemed busier with his creations than watching what his soldier was doing. Minutes later his results showed that there was nothing wrong with him or his processor. He frowned at the report, that couldn't be right.
"I saw her too, she was very much real," Perceptor, the combined minicon said to the stunned Starscream who looked at him as if he had said something that was supposed to be a joke but knowing that this being never joked.
"Why didn't you say anything before?" he muttered quietly to the Minicon, carefully watching Megatron in case he noticed.
"I did not want to scare you," Perceptor beeped in reply. "You were in shock and so many things were going on but she was real."
"But...?" Starscream said, trying to put his confused thoughts into words. "How can that be, she is off lined. How could she ever appear and disappear like that?"
"I do not know," Perceptor said simply. "But many things are possible and this is one of them. Megatron also saw her but I doubt he will discuss that with you."
Starscream snorted, he doubted that as well.
"She tried to tell Megatron what he was doing to their children," Perceptor went on urgently. "But he does not appear to have understood, he wishes to manipulate them into loving and obeying him."
"You think I don't know that?" he hissed at the combined Minicon. "What can I do?"
"You know what you must do," Perceptor said quietly as he watched Megatron smile at his sleeping children.
"My sweet, sweet sparkllings..." Megatron continued caressing the three feeling himself in dreamland as his spark gently beat against theirs.
But soon enough they started to stir and moan ready to awake.
"What happened?" The voice of the first mechling sounded very much like Rad's
"I feel like... as if someone crushed all my bones and put them all together with saliva..." The femling replied, shivering slightly.
"Hmmm...maybe that's what happened..." The last mechling replied with a groan and that caused the three of them to snap back into reality and online their optics fully. Desperately, they looked looking around but something was holding them very tightly.
"Good morning, sweetsparks," Megatron replied to them with a warm and dreamy smile.
The three of them just stared at him in awe before...
"What the hell?! Megatron? Did you... shrink?" the one that sounded like Carlos looked up and then at his siblings. "DUDE!" He freaked out.
It was in that moment that the three sparklings looked at each other and started screaming, pointing at each other and themselves. Megatron just let them as he watched them recognise their original bodies.
"What have you done to us, monster?!" Alexis cried.
"You crazy bastard! This was not supposed to happen!" Rad barked at the leader, almost in tears.
Megatron looked unamused at the mechling. "Do not EVER dare to speak to your sire like that again, UNDERSTOOD?!" he threatened dangerously at him.
Right next to them, Starscream flinched; the kids were very, VERY upset if they called Megatron that, and even worst if said Mech talked to them like THAT. After all, the punishments may rise in level now.
"You're insane! Look at us! Look what you did! This is not what we wanted you afthole!" the one that was 'Carlos' said.
Megatron frowned at him, resisting the urge to slap them on their faces; just one more... just one more insult and they will pay for it dearly...
"Let us go!" They struggled to get free from him, but he was stronger and was not so willing on letting them go yet.
"Stay quiet!" He barked to the three who froze right there. "Our bond needs to settle, why can't you just stay put and enjoy it?"
But once he finished, the three tried to struggle their way out and away from him again.
"Let us go, monster! Help! Please! Starscream! Help us!" Alexis cried once she spotted the seeker who looked at them with unease.
"Uh," Starscream said, put on the spot a little. But before he could say anything, Megatron growled.
"You stay out of this Starscream."
"Please help us," Alexis begged, her bright green optics looking at him in fear and desperate hope.
"If you want to make yourself useful, go and train," barked Megatron, holding onto his Sparklings protectively.
Starscream paused with indecision before remembering Perceptor's words.
"This is wrong."
"What did you say?" Megatron growled as the kids looked hopeful.
"What you're doing...is wrong Megatron," Starscream said forcefully. "They may be your kids but you're going to destroy them if you don't stop for a moment and listen to what they want."
"They don't know what they want," Megatron said with contempt. "If it were up to them, they would return to their weak, pathetic organic bodies and go back to Earth to their fake creators."
As the kids cried out in outrage, Starscream said loudly.
"If that's what they want, then you should allow them to do just that."
"It is pretty clear that even you don't know what the best is for them, now, GET OUT OF HERE!" Megatron roared but Starscream stood his ground.
"No! Listen to them! You're their sire, you're supposed to look after them and care for them not forcing them to do as you say as if they were soldiers that you don't expect to love you back or at least appreciate what you're doing for them!" The seeker barked.
"What does that means, soldier? That you expect nothing from me?!"
"It's not that and do not change my words! If they want you to release them, release them! They need time to think about...thisshit you did to them!"
The kids' optics widened at the human curse and could barely stop themselves smiling at the seeker before Megatron tightened his hold on them again.
"And again with the words, you never learn, do you, Starscream?" Megatron stood with his Sparklings tightly held in his arms and walked towards him ignoring how the kids bit, kicked or yelled at him to leave Starscream and them alone.
"Let them go, sir..."
"You can't order ME around!"
"No? But I can ask you to let them go as they want!"
"Then I refuse to do it, now, get OUT!" Megatron barked him one last time before sitting back on the berth with his cargo.
Starscream just stared and stared as Rad barked at the leader. "Let us go, you pathetic, egoistical, insufferable afthole!"
It went faster than what the seeker thought, he actually for a second thought it didn't happened, but Megatron slapped the mechling's face, turning it around with a loud 'slap' sound.
Another second and Starscream charged towards his leader, trying to break the kids free from his arms. "You fragging bastard! How dare you?!" He tried to pull his leader's arms, but this action only caused Megatron to shift the sparklings to one arm so with his other arm he delivered a big and brutal punch to the seeker's middle. This caused him to bend over, almost on the floor, an opportunity that Megatron gladly took and kicked the seeker on the face and then on the floor over and over again.
"NO!" The kids yelled as two of them got free from his grasp and reached for his face and horns, pulling him as hard as they could. The third sparkling was free and did the same his siblings.
Megatron was losing his patience fast as he took one of them and threw him to the wall and did the same to the others before Perceptor came to their rescue and the leader knocked the combined Minicon out with a fierce kick.
"Now," He said as he watched them drag themselves towards Starscream and take hold of him. "I will make sure this never happens again, I've had enough of your insubordinations for the rest of my existence!" He roared.
"Run kids, run..." Starscream coughed hoarsely.
"He'll kill you," gasped Rad, in a bit of pain from the slap.
"Your damn right I'll kill him if he continues to inspire you to rebel," roared Megatron, gripping Starscream by his face.
"Never mind me, just run," Starscream insisted through gritted teeth as he tried to hold off his leader.
"But...," Alexis protested, torn with indecision as she helped Carlos to his feet.
Megatron suddenly shoved Starscream to the floor and stamped down heavily on his tanks. Starscream gasped with pain and doubled up, clutching his middle as he fought not to throw up. Megatron then moved and grabbed his Sparklings, taking a firm hold of them as he growled.
"I've got a better punishment for you solider, I'm going to take my children and reprogramme them until they HATE the very sight of you. Then we'll see how you can help them."
Starscream was in too much pain to reply or move at that. The kids however...
"NO! Starscream!" Alexis cried as she and her brothers tried to get free from the tyrant's hold.
"You fragging monster! don't you dare!" Rad shouted again.
"That will not work, we will hate you more...!" Carlos barked,
The seeker looked around in hopes that someone, something that would help the children, they needed help urgently! This was not what Silverblaze meant when she appeared; he now wondered if she would appear again to stop her insane mate, but somehow doubted it as he tried his best to move in order to stop his leader who had already left the med bay with the kids.
"Please, somebody, help them..." The seeker cried hearing the kids' cries for help and never before he felt so impotent and weak.
...
"HELP! Somebody! Help us...!"
The kids' cries for help reached once again Scavengers' audios who stopped whatever training he was doing and bolted to the base only to see Megatron holding them tightly. They were struggling and crying trying to get free from the being of their misery.
"Megatron? What are you doing?" The elder approached his leader, sensing the other Mechs coming and staring from a safe distance at the scene.
All of them could not believe what their optics were seeing... Sparklings!
"Megatron...are those the children?" he asked in astonishment.
"Yes," Megatron said curtly, holding them against his chest as they continued to weakly struggle. "Do you require something Scavenger?"
"Uh...the men have just finished a training session and we were planning to refuel," the old Mech replied, knowing something bad was going on. "Do...you or the children need any Energon?"
"No, I'll get something later," Megatron said, still walking as Scavenger followed close behind. "Same goes for them."
"Scavenger, help us...he's trying to take our memories," Rad cried to the old Mech who stared in shock.
"What?"
"I will not have them disobeying me and bestowing all their affection on that traitor Starscream," Megatron declared. "I hope you do not have any objections to that Scavenger."
Knowing he was on dangerous ground, Scavenger said warily.
"No...but I would be hesitant to reprogram them prematurely...I've seen some nasty things happen to bots."
"They'll be fine, I know what I'm doing," Megatron stated as the kids cried even more. "From the moment they've woken up, they have been insolent and defiant..."
"Perhaps it is a by product of the experience," Scavenger suggested. "They were in a lot of pain and this is very new to them...even if it was meant to be. Maybe all they need is a bit of time out."
Megatron was growing tired of everyone trying to take his sparklings from him and encouraging them to act out... and now with Scavenger...
"I know what I'm doing so don't try to stop me! they had enough time to think on their actions and they know that I will not tolerate that behaviour from them anymore!" the tyrant stomped towards that same room the kids feared badly.
"Are you sure? I've seen mechs saying the same about their... victims... It can end up bad, Megatron, and you know it! What if you lose them this time forever?"
"I WILL NOT LOSE THEM AGAIN!" Megatron turned towards the elder just to bark at him, which of course didn't make the other flinch... However, the other mechs that had been following and watching the scene turned tail and ran away once their leader turned his enraged optics on them.
"Cowards!" Carlos whined in disgust.
"See?! That attitude is the one I'm taking from them!"
"What makes you so sure that that is what will happen? That only that will happen?"
Megatron just snarled and walked away with the struggling and screaming children.
"It seems you forgot what we just talked about..." The elder added before Megatron disappears from sight. Luckily for the children he stopped.
They didn't say anything, just looked up with stained faces as Megatron scowled. He seemed to be thinking about something but they had no idea what it could be. They only prayed that whatever it was would convince him not to take away all their precious memories.
"Fine," he suddenly grumbled, turning and heading down a new corridor. The kids sighed in relief, he must have had a change of Spark...or whatever passed for his Spark anyway.
"W-where are you taking us?" Rad managed to ask, his voice a little hoarse.
"To my quarters," Megatron said bluntly. "You will stay there for the time being, if you behave I might eventually give you your own room."
Megatron dumped the kids in his quarters and locked the door from the outside; leaving them in the dark.
The three of them were scared to the bone and lay there on the ground with one another, holding each other tightly thinking that they will NEVER disobey Optimus again. If the Autobot leader wanted them to stay and wait to see their parents, so be it, they would wait... unfortunately it was too late to step back.
"What do we do now?" Alexis said between tears and sobs.
"I don't know..." Rad said in the same state.
"Dude, he... he beat you!" Carlos said adjusting his optics to look at his friend, now brother, in the face.
"It's not big deal; it pissed me off more than it hurt..."
"Bastard!" Alexis hissed in hate. "Now we will never see our parents again..."
...
In the shadows of the room, Thrust's figure looked at them and felt their hate towards the Decepticon leader; it might be something for the moment, but he needed them to feel it constantly. His master will be so happy to know that sparklings can hate too.
He needed to act for that; he wondered if Megatron had already fed them... It was then an idea crossed his processor.
With an evil chuckle he set three cubes of sweet high grade energon on Megatron's berth, and with a little luck they would drink it all. He couldn't wait to see Megatron's pets drunk, he will be SO upset that he would possibly punish them again and they will hate him all the more.
...
It felt like hours for the kids and all the crying, plus the sorrow and helplessness made them tired and somehow hungry.
"I don't know about you guys but I think I'm hungry," Carlos whispered the others.
"Me too... but... what do they... eh... us eat; is not like we can eat a burger now, is it?" Rad said hoarsely from crying all time and not really thinking straight.
"Look!" Alexis pointed at the berth. "What's that?"
Right on the berth were three glowing energon cubes. They got close to them and took one each.
"I think it's fuel or something," Carlos said before taking a sip of his own cube. The others watched in awe. "Hmm... tastes good, maybe it's for us."
The other two followed his example and started drinking all of it... but once they finished with it...
"I feel dizzy..." Alexis moaned before loudly burping gaining her brother's laughs.
In no time they were making a burping contest, laughing about nothing, completely forgetting the situation they were in.
Meanwhile, Megatron had grudgingly allowed Scavenger to heal Starscream but had banned him from seeing the kids for a while. Starscream had wanted to protest but Scavenger had warned him that for now, Megatron wasn't hurting them or taking them to have their memories wiped. So it was in their best interests for him to obey Megatron, at least for now. Starscream saw the logic in this but he still worried greatly for the children...how long until Megatron did something even more stupid than the last time?
After blasting a few targets, said tyrant decided to check up on his Sparklings. He half expected them to be trying to escape or something equally rage inducing. What he got was...very different.
"I hope you have behaved...what?" he exclaimed he shock, seeing them lying on his berth, giggling away to themselves. He hadn't heard them laugh in ages.
"Hee, hee...hi...Megatron," Alexis giggled, upon seeing him.
"Alexis?" he questioned, coming closer and seeing how she held up her arms towards him.
"I wanna go high," she cried, waving her arms like she was trying to lift off.
Rather bemused by this turn of events, he did as she asked, lifting her into his arms. She giggled again before snuggling against his chest, almost purring. He stroked her head, had a time out really been all they needed to change?
"What happened... here..." He said as he took his femling in arms and smelled her. "What have you been drinking!" He asked mild shocked, mild furious.
"Shhhhh! heh, heh, heh," Rad giggled waving his hand to make him lower his volume. "Quiet, dad, we were hungryyy and jusssst... drink youuuur sssshinny ssssstrawberry juice..."
"Yeah... was sssssooooo ssssweet, hic!" Carlos hiccuped and giggled along with his siblings.
"You got a hiccup!" Alexis laughed trying to dizzily point at him. "Sssstand upside down and count till a hundread..." She instructed seriously talking... or at least trying to before a laugh escaped.
"Yesssss, doctor Alexissss... hic!" Carlos hiccupped before trying to do as instructed, but Megatron stopped him.
"Don't, you will make yourself purge!"
"Jeez, the doc'ssss orderssss, Megsy, dun worry, I'll be, HIC! ok..." He kept trying nonetheless.
"Stop!" The leader tried. "How much of it did you have?!"
However his question was not answered. "You're my dad?" Alexis asked him with shiny green optics. "Then, get me wings! I wanna fly like a butterfly!" She said at the moment her arms extended and let herself fall to the ground. Luckily for her, Megatron caught her.
"Answer me!" He tried again but it was useless; his creations were totally out of themselves. Now he really didn't know what to do before his optics caught Rad drinking the remains of a cube and burp after he was finished.
"That was, yummy..." The blue opticed mechling stated.
"Do you have some more?" Alexis said before taking another half empty cube and taking it to her mouth before Megatron took it off from her. "Hey! That'ssss MY strawberry juice! Get your ownnnn!"
"This is not for sparklings!" Megatron said as he tried to stop his daughter from taking the cube from him, but she was not giving up, so, he drunk it all in one gulp. The kids stared at him before he gave a loud, long and deep burp...
...Then they were cheering at him to do it again.
"Do it again, do it again," they chorused.
Megatron paused, he'd only drunk it to stop any of them doing the same...he really shouldn't...
"Go on dad," Rad encouraged, a big grin on his face, an expression that had almost because unfamiliar recently.
That did it, Megatron was so buoyed by the fact his children had finally started addressing him correctly, even if it was the Earth term for Sire that he grinned. Taking out a cube from sub space, he chugged it down, feeling it burn pleasantly as it slid down his throat and into his tank. The kids cheered and his Spark felt light, they finally liked him.
Taking what seemed like the best decision he took another big gulp, this one causing him to burp slightly. This of course, made the kids laugh and encourage him to drink even more. Which he did so.
"Can we have some more?" begged Carlos, clinging to his hand.
"No...hic...not good for Sparklings," Megatron said with a rather silly grin. He was rapidly becoming drunk; this must be one of his extra strong cubes. Combined with that fact that his Sparklings were acting happy again, he felt great. When they protested, he grinned and said.
"I have some High Grade sweet treats, how about those, my pets?"
"OOh yes, please," Alexis said eagerly and they held out their hands, wanting the happy feeling to continue.
Megatron grinned and subspaced the candies in their waiting hands, then took another long gulp from his cube.
Hours passed and the family continued in their drunk party...
"And, and...aaa-and she, she died!" Megatron cried loudly against his sparklings; fat and warm tears run by his cheeks. "And, and, and, you... I thought I lost you with her..." He continued as he held them tightly against his chassis.
"Please don't hate me, everybody hates me, I can't take my own creations hating me too," He continued crying and sobbing. The kids were crying with him too.
"That's SOOO sad... sniff... no one sssshould feeeeel hissss heart break!" Alexis sobbed drunkenly against him.
"You were sooooo badddd with ussss.. Don't be bad again and we will love you..." Rad continued.
"Yeah... you are such a sad mech hiding in the cloud of evilnessss..." Carlos added. "But you're cool, we like you."
That last comment made Megatron's optic's shine and cry harder and louder as he held his creations against him. "Don't leave me, I need you!"
The four of them cried against each other sharing more feelings and memories in their drunken state.
...
Starscream WAS worried, no matter what Scavenger said, he was worried, he will go and check on the kids no matter if Megatron shot him through his spark, he needed to take that doubt from his processor.
Using his override codes, the locking system of Megatron's quarters unlocked and the seeker was able to get in, however, the smell and sounds were not what he was expecting to find.
"What...?"
He spotted his crying leader on his berth with the crying children holding to him. He had to reset his optics several times to finally realize that what he was seeing WAS real.
"Starsssscream!" Alexis squeaked getting free from her sire's hold to run to the seeker's grasp. She hugged him by the neck and the seeker couldn't process quite right what was happening. "You are my BFF, I love you!"
"Whaaa...?" The flier barely had time to said before Megatron stomped right next to him with his stained face and took her back from him.
"You, don't you dare to do it, misterrr... you're too old and too low ranked to court her..." The warlord said to the stunned seeker.
"DAD!" Alexis barked flushed. "And look at his wings! I want a pair too! I wanna fly!" She said with determination.
"Sire will..." Megatron tried, but she interrupted him.
"I want wings! I want them, I want them, I want them, I want them, I want them..." She got away from his arms to the ground and stomped on it like a spoiled brat over and over again. "If you love me you will give them to me!" She cried louder.
"Fine! Sire will give a beautiful pair of wings to his femling!" He said to her which gained a loud scream from her and she hugged his neck.
Starscream however just turned on his heels and walked away from there, not sure of what he just saw.
Megatron smirked, rather delighted that he didn't need to order the other Mech away. As he walked back to the berth, his boys rushed over to him, clambering on top of him as he laughed, lying back with them all over. Stroking their heads, he said softly.
"Your mother would be so proud of you; she would have loved each and every one of you."
"I wish we could have met her," Alexis sighed sadly, her energy seeping away as exhaustion started to take her.
"Me too," Rad said, with Carlos agreeing.
Megatron smiled, still stroking before saying.
"Go to sleep, my children."
They yawned, they felt sleepier than ever and his pulsing Spark was so comforting. One by one, they drifted off, curled against his chest. He smiled as he lay back, it wasn't the most comfortable, but he didn't care. At long last, his children had acknowledged him and now, they would never leave him.
Starscream wandered the moon base passageways with a lost look and mouth still open. He had no idea what just happened just that he needed to get out from there in order to keep his processor functional...
...that, or he was going nuts like Cyclonus.
"Starscream?" Scavenger addressed the zombie-like seeker and set a hand on his shoulder. "What happened? Are you alright?"
The vossian was still lost even as the elder tried to make him focus by snapping his fingers in front of his face. "This is not okay, come on, Starscream, follow me," the elder guided him back into the medbay.
Once the young hypnotized flier was set on a medical berth, Scavenger tried to awake him again from his trance. "Come on soldier! Wake up!" he was worrying now, what did he see that put him into such shocked state?
"Come on, Starscream, at least tell me what you saw!"
"I... I... Megatron... Kids... Alexis... Drunk..." Was everything he could manage before Scavenger grabbed him from the shoulders and shock him roughly.
"Be more specific!"
That seemed to work as Starscream was the one who took Scavenger from his shoulders and yelled. "Megatron! He got the kids drunk! I need to do..." He then paused for a second. "They were all crying and Alexis told me she loved me and that she wanted wings and Megatron told her he will give them to her and that I'm too old and-"
"Hey, hey, hey... Slow down... What...?" The poor Scavenger tried to process what he just heard. "What did you said?"
"I don't know what happened either! I'm still processing it! Maybe Megatron did as he said he would and reprogrammed them!" Starscream babbled desperately.
But good old Scavenger reassured him. "You don't need to worry about that, he didn't do it, he just left them in his quarters and went for some target practice." Starscream looked at him. "But I'm worried about how he got the sparklings drunk... Maybe they were hungry and took some of his high grade believing it was normal energon?"
"Idiot!" Starscream mumbled. "He needs to save his high grade in a better place. He's giving them a bad example."
Scavenger nodded. "I'll talk to him when he awakes, and you better start preparing some painkillers because the hangover those sparklings will have will be terrible... And make some for Megatron as well... I believe he joined them... Was he crying too?"
The seeker flinched and nodded with that question. "Good, tell no one about this-"
"First of all..." Starscream interrupted him. "I'm still trying to believe if what I saw was real, and second, I wanna live... I think I've seen too many odd things for the past hours than in my long and past existence."
The elder just shook his head. "You're too young, Starscream, you still need to see lots of things."
"I'm not young!" Starscream protested hotly, why was he always called that? Sure, he wasn'told like Megatron but he was no rookie fresh off the assembly line.
Scavenger smiled wryly at him before saying.
"You are to me solider."
Starscream just grumbled under his breath as Scavenger now said.
"While I do not approve of high grade for younglings, especially Sparklings, at least Megatron isn't trying to hurt them anymore. If they can find some way to connect, then Megatron will stop obsess over controlling them and might start seeing their needs and wants."
"I wouldn't count on it," Starscream said darkly as he began to gather painkillers and other things the kids would need. He was tempted not to bother getting anything for Megatron and didn't fancy being beaten by his hung-over leader.
But then he paused and said.
"What will happen to them Scavenger, they still want to be with their human creators. And I doubt their going to stop liking those Autobots any time soon."
"That's a difficult question Starscream," Scavenger said tiredly. "And I suspect it'll be up to Megatron."
Suddenly glancing around, he leaned close to the Seeker and said.
"Just you keep an optic out for Thrust, I don't trust him. Wheeljack's not a bad Mech and Tidalways isn't exactly built for sneaking around but I wouldn't put anything past that Jet."
Starscream nodded and looked around. He didn't trusted the tactician either, he was always sneaking his intriguing conehead around.
"I know... I had the disgrace of knowing him before."
The elder mech's optic's ridges lifted as he looked the other; if Starscream had such poor opinion of one of those that shared his frame type it means he would need to be especially careful around Thrust.
...
Megatron's quarters...
The next day...
"Urgh..." The Decepticon leader groaned as he grabbed his aching head. "What...?" He then realised the position he'd fallen asleep... A very uncomfortable one... But at least his sparklings were with him and had finally accepted him... Even if they were drunk.
"Primus..." he shook his head. "I'll need to hide my high grade in a better place. But I wonder how they got their little hands on them?"
Shaking the thought from his processor he lifted his frame from the berth and set his creations back on it. His head was demanding him to do something about the splitting headache that was fast approaching.
In no time he left to the med bay.
...
Megatron frowned at the sight of the Mech sitting on the desk with four needles of painkillers next to him.
"Don't worry; I'll say nothing about it..." Starscream said as the threatening figure of his leader approached and took the needles. "Just one thing..." and Megatron growled, "Next time, tell them to stay away from high grade, it can end up bad, worse than you think," the seeker finished.
"First of all, you better'd, and second... You are still 'grounded...' 'youngling...,'" Megatron added, knowing that the other hated being directed like that. "Stay away from my sparklings, especially Alexis." then turned to leave. However, Starscream stopped him.
"I'm not a youngling anymore! And you said I'm old!"
Megatron just smirked at him and walked away without another word which made the seeker growl in annoyance.
"Stupid Megatron," Starscream muttered, folding his arms in a slight huff.
Meanwhile, Megatron arrived back at his quarters without incident to find his creations still sleeping. Smiling, he decided to do something nice for them since they'd probably be grumpy when they woke up. After injecting himself with the painkiller and feeling a lot better, he went into his personal wash room and started setting up a bath for them all. But since they were now transformers, he poured a generous amount of oil in and started heating it up. This would soothe them and also make their armour feel like new.
Just as he was finishing, he heard a groan and knew that they were waking up. Quickly going back through to his room, he found Rad sitting up, clutching his head as he moaned heavily.
"Hello mo mhac," he greeted with a purr as Rad squinted at him.
"Uh, my head," the boy groaned, optics shut. "What...what happened?"
"You three somehow got your hands on some High Grade," Megatron stated sternly. "How you did I have no idea but now you're suffering from a hangover."
"High... Grade? What is... Is that like... Oh my God!" The blue opticed mechling exclaimed when he remembered what he and his friends did... They got drunk!
If their parents knew they will be grounded like... Forever... Even after finished they university... They would be old and still grounded!
"Ah! Shhhhh! Quiet, Rad!" Alexis hissed before popping her green optics online. "Oh no!" It seemed she was thinking the same.
Luckily for them, Carlos woke up. "They don't need to know..." Alexis and Rad turned and frowned at him.
"Who, my dears?" Megatron asked wondering if they were still thinking on their Earth creators. He frowned at the idea.
The three jumped and looked at him. "Our parents will punish us for getting drunk until even after finishing the university. But... You won't do that, right?" Carlos decided to test the waters.
Megatron's optics were big as plates before petting his mechling on the head. "No, I won't, and that should be a good reason for staying with me forever. I know it was an accident and that you didn't meant to do it. But they might not understand it."
The three kids looked at each other then back at him. "Ok..." they said in chorus...
...but now they shared a triplets bond and could communicate through it without him knowing...
'We shouldn't make him angry,' Rad said to his siblings.
'He likes to be called DAD,' Carlos added.
'We're full transformers now... We'll have think carefully if we want to see our parents again... Maybe if we make Megatron think he our love and acceptance, he will start giving us more freedom and things...' Alexis suggested.
'Alexis... You're SO right!' Rad said. 'So... We are all agree?'
The other two nodded in the bond. Then said 'OKay' to Megatron in chorus.
Megatron truly smiled at them before hugging them tightly against his chest.
"I got a surprise for you," the warlord said to them.
"What is it...dad?" Alexis tried, watching Megatron's face light up in delight.
Patting their heads again, he lifted them up and away.
"It's a surprise, my dears."
They looked at him curiously, wondering what it could be. He took them into his wash room and showed them the steaming bath.
"A bath?" Carlos said in surprise as Megatron chuckled.
"Not just a bath but a special one," he said, dipping a finger into it before smearing it across the kids' middles. "See my dears?"
"Oh!" Alexis said, touching the warm oil and smelling it sweet scent. "It's...lovely."
"I thought you would enjoy it," Megatron said rather smugly. "Come, let us enjoy it."
"Uhh, what about our heads?" Rad questioned, it was really pounding.
"What about...? Oh, right..." The elder remembered the painkillers. "Don't move," He commanded.
At the sight of syringes, the three jumped away from him. He just smiled. "It's just a painkiller, it will take your headache away. Don't be afraid, it won't hurt."
The kids looked at each other before getting close him again and took the shots. "There you are, soon you will feel better."
He looked at them with a dreamy sigh, he couldn't help it; it was one of the things he wanted the most in the universe.
Hiding in the shadows like the coward he was, Thrust watched the family's gathering. He couldn't believe it! His master will not be pleased at all! Megatron was supposed to be angry at them not LOVE them!
He would need to plan more for his next plan, he just couldn't leave them be so easily!
Back with Megatron and the kids, they were looking back at him. "Uh... dad? What is it?" Rad said unsure.
"Hmm? Oh nothing," he stated, waving the question away. "Come on, let's get into our bath, I think we need it, eh."
Flushing slightly, they did as instructed, their bodies really did need it. They moaned with pleasure as the warm oil seeped over their bodies, it felt so good. As they relaxed, Megatron asked.
"How did you get your hands on High Grade? You can tell me, I won't be angry."
They glanced at each other before saying.
"We just found it on your berth, some little cubes...we thought you might have left them for us."
"Really?" He was pretty sure that he NEVER left any of his cubes on his berth, so, now he wondered how the cubes got there.
He was thinking about it when one of his sparklings was poking at him. "Yes, my dear?" He looked at the one poking at him, Alexis.
"Uh... dad... I think it's time for me to have my period..." She asked timidly. She wasn't really sure but she liked to be prepared.
"Ewwww Alexis! Don't speak about that here and now!" Her friends got away from her.
Megatron scowled in disgust before clearing his voice. "Cybertronian femmes don't have such things called, periods... or waste their life fluid by their... uh... there... even less so for five days or more... so, you will not need to worry about it anymore."
"Are you sure? Because it was a sign that as a human I was ready to..." She tried but was interrupted again.
"Hello? Alexis? Disgusting comment now!" Carlos whined, clutching his head where his ears used to be.
"I just want to know, Okay?!" She growled at the golden opticed mechling and frowned to the other just in case. "How will I know I'm matured in this body? Will I have to suffer something like that? Like a period?"
Megatron couldn't believe it. It was happening again; sometimes he wondered when he would have this conversation with his femling again because honestly he missed it... but now... he realised he didn't missed it at all...
"Uh... well..." This time the three were looking at him, not just her.
"Right, let me make this quite clear," he finally managed to say. "Transformers and this includes Minicons, do not have periods. Understood?"
"Yes but..," Alexis started to say but he held up a hand.
"You are all Sparklings and will not mature for a long time so you need not worry. But to answer your question, you will grow as you mature and when you finally reach maturity, you will be able to transform."
"So transforming is a sign of adulthood?" Rad questioned curiously and Megatron nodded.
"It is one of the signs, yes. But in relation to... reproduction," he began delicately and the kids looked at him more intently. "Obviously none of you are capable of having your own Sparklings or even engaging in...sexual relations."
He smirked as they blushed furiously at this.
"Once you are ready, your reproductive systems will come online and then you're...shall we say, equipment shall fully develop."
The kids nodded, that sounded similar to humans bodies so they didn't need to ask what develop meant. However, Megatron had a sly grin on his face as he said.
"One thing I should probably tell you about, once you are developing, your body will start to produce lubricant and you may experience leakages..."
"Eww, gross," they all exclaimed, pulling faces and clutching their audio as Megatron laughed heartily.
When the show of faces ended... "Leakages?" Alexis asked. "Like a period? So, in the end we will have a period? Even them?" She pointed the boys who flinched and looked at him with pleading faces. "We have periods? How do you stop the... Leakage?"
Alexis was very interested in this... as she always was, he noticed, but the other two seemed to want to have their processors purged from the things that their young imagination had produced.
"No, no period as I said..." Megatron said.
"Then...what you meant by all that?" She asked as she came closer.
He sighed; of course it would be her that would persist with the questions.
"When we become aroused, we need lubricate and oil to make the process smoother," he said as the boys pulled faces but Alexis just looked intently at him.
"So your systems will produce this during interface and you'll leak," Megatron continued, adding. "But when you first start developing, your body can sometimes produce a small amount even if you're not aroused as your body adjusts to the new systems."
"Oh I see," Alexis said with a nod. "I think something similar can happen with humans, especially boys who get..."
"Whoa, whoa, Amiga," Carlos cried. "He does not need to know that."
Alexis rolled her eyes before saying.
"But it doesn't hurt or anything right? It's perfectly natural?"
"It is," he confirmed. "And once you've fully matured, it will not happen randomly or without reason."
Alexis looked at him again not so sure about asking him again something as her friends looked at her pleadingly to not do it.
"How was it when you were younger? Who told you about this stuff? Your creators or did you find it out by yourself?"
He frowned looking at her. "What you mean?"
"If you experimented or did you already have the theory on how to do it?"
The boys face palmed their faces. Why in God's name did she have to ask him all of those things?!
"You really don't need to answer that, dad, please..." Rad insisted frowning at Alexis.
"But I want to know! I just wonder if he experimented or if he paid a mistress to teach him," She whined.
"Alexis!" Both boys jumped.
Megatron just chuckled. "I'll answer all of that-"
"No, please no!" The boys said.
"Yes, please?" She insisted and he couldn't say no to those optics.
"Everyone experiments," he said with a slight leer. "But in answer to your first question, it was my Sire that told me all I needed to know, the rest I found out myself.
"I did not require a 'mistress' as you say to teach me," he continued, rather proudly. "But I did court a few Femmes before I found your mother, so I gained plenty of knowledge before I was with her."
The boys were pulling faces again; they did not want to know that. Alexis considered what he'd told her before asking.
"Did you ever consider getting another mate, like Optimus? When you were...with her?"
Megatron grimaced, but still, she didn't even flinch, or the other two. "Well...No... I wouldn't have tried to take another, I loved her and only her; and if I had taken another mate it would have been because she would have told me to do it. And no, I am not interested in taking another mate ever... I feel if I do it... that I will be replacing her somehow... my spark is only hers and it will always be."
Alexis' optics shined like a couple of stars after that statement. "D'awwwww, that is so... so... adorable, you set an example for every men in this universe, who wouldn't want to have a husband who will love her forever even after death."
The warlord's optics' softened after her comment and she continued. "I wish all men could be like you in that aspect... I wish I can find one who will love me like that forever..." She said dreamily.
"You will have to wait a LONG time for that," Megatron stated with a slight growl.
Alexis growled back at him and the boys giggled at her. "One more thing... Was... mom... a virgin when you met her for the first time? Because it seems your society has no problems if femmes are virgins or not, right? Did she have a partner or partners before you? Was she... experienced?" She tilted her head.
Megatron made a slight face before saying.
"No more questions, I want to relax for a while with you all. We've got a new day ahead of us."
Alexis looked like she wanted to continue but with a sigh, conceded that he'd already answered quite a few questions. Carlos gave her a light punch on the arm and said.
"You never give up, do you?"
"No and you love me for it," she teased right back and then laughed.
Megatron began to rub them, massaging the oil into their armour, relaxing them even though they didn't want to feel too close to him. They still wanted to be with their parents and were determined that they would be reunited but they couldn't be bothered feeling angry right now. They'd been so angry and so upset recently; they wanted to focus on happier feelings.
"Hmm...What are we going to do today?" Rad asked.
"We will think on that later, for now, we will just relax. Now, try to do it and be quiet," Megatron said.
"Someday you will answer me those questions..." Alexis teased.
The boys and Megatron shook their heads. "You really don't give up, my dear."
She giggled. "Nope... and now I'm more curious now."
"Just one thing, my dear, wait up until you mature, even after you can transform, then you will have the answers."
She frowned at him giving him the hint that she will be having the answers she wanted sooner than what he wanted her to have them; he didn't doubted it. There were things that were too sensitive for them to know yet... he will need time to explain them ALL once they are ready...
..but for now it will wait and he will enjoy the moment with them.
Author's note. Megatron believes the kids have accepted him but have they really? Can they find a way to reunite with their parents? And what is Thrust up to? Find out next time, until then.