Author's note. Written by me and The-Writing-Mew.
Nice long chapter for everyone.
By the way, I'm co author on a story called 'Accidental Hunger' it's about Armada Megatron being a vampire, it's a really good story. It's posted by Mediziner and you can find a link to it on my profile. And it's in my favourites, check it out and if you like it, please leave a review.
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"I cannot believe him," Optimus grumbled once Jetfire was firmly away.
Alexis might be a transformer now but she was still a young girl and should not be hearing such things. She'd always been a bold and curious being, a bad combination around a bot like Jetfire who did not know when to be discreet. And it wasn't just him, that Cyclonus had been filling her head with far too much information.
He could only hope that Megatron had control of the situation now and wouldn't allow her to keep poking. As for the boys, well, she was bound to tell them what she'd learned and their reaction wouldn't be a good one. Speaking of which, he wondered if they were alright.
There was an uneasy feeling swirling in his tanks by the fact he had not been able to visually assure himself that they were fine. Alexis hadn't seemed concerned and there was no way she'd lie but he still wished he could have seen them. Perhaps they really had been sleeping and he was just being paranoid.
He really hoped so.
Decepticon moon base...
Megatron was on the hunt for Scavenger, he needed to deposit his daughter with him as she watched Starscream; there was no way in the universe he was leaving her alone with Cyclonus again; that mech lacked any decency and inhibitions around anything! He was pretty sure that the helicopter would have spoken about reproduction to... to Unicorn himself without blinking an optic! Better keep that Mech away from her... and his sons.
Also, he didn't want to return to his quarters just yet and face his boys because he was still angry with them and even less desired his daughter near them so soon after what happened. He knew that Alexis would be upset and angry with him when she learned what had happened. He didn't want that, he wanted to keep her happy and loving him so he had decided to delay the inevitable. Good thing she was worried for his glitched seeker.
That thought made him frown and scowl, but if he wanted to keep her away, he will have to use Starscream as an excuse to keep her away from her brothers that would obviously tell her what happened.
Hopefully when he did return to his quarters later, the boys would have realised their mistake and would be asking for forgiveness. He would reprimand them and make them swear not to repeat the mistake and they could put this behind them.
"Scavenger, follow me," The Decepticon leader ordered once he found the elder warrior who just followed him without speaking.
Once they reached the medbay, Alexis was happily chatting with Cyclonus. The warlord froze at what those two were talking about.
"So... you're saying that a sparkling in there can move and kick? Wow, that must feel really awkward... but... how does a Mech give birth? Does the sparkling come out the same way for femmes?"
"Well, once the sparkling is ready to come out, the mech feels-"
"CYCLONUS!" Megatron barked from the entrance interrupting him and making him and his daughter jump. "Get out and go train!"
The Mech hadn't wasted any second and scrambled out of medbay hearing Alexis' whine and moan in disappointment. He just gave her a sad look and said: "Later, kid."
"OUT!" His leader roared and he disappeared through the doors and his steps could be heard quickly fading through the passageways.
"Awww... daaaad...!" Alexis whined. "He was explaining to me how Mechs deliver Sparklings!"
Megatron just reached for her and kissed her on the forehead. "No more about it for now, Scavenger is here to look after you."
Said Scavenger was wide opticed at the subject she had just mentioned.
"Will you tell me?" Alexis asked eagerly but he shook his head.
"Sorry, not my area of expertise," he said ruefully, knowing that Megatron would not be happy if he talked as openly as Cyclonus. Frankly, he had no desire to discuss the subject with her or any others younglings, that was something for their creators to deal with.
"But you must know something," she persisted as Megatron sighed and gave her a little tap. "Don't pester him inion, be a good girl and do as he asks. I'll see you later."
"See ya," she said but as he was leaving, called. "What about the boys?"
"After what you've just heard, they deserve to be left in peace," he muttered before telling Scavenger. "Don't return to my quarters until I say so, I don't want her brothers corrupted."
"Got it," the old Mech said with a nod and Megatron was finally able to leave.
"Are you sure you can't tell me anything?" Alexis pleaded but he smirked and said. "'fraid not kiddo. But you can ask me about other aspects of transformer life if you want."
She pouted a little but was very curious so nodded, she'd let the old Mech do just that.
...
Meanwhile, Megatron had gone back to his Throne room to examine that dormant Minicon shield he'd received from the Minicon. He wanted to solve the problem of this shield and access its power but how? If he could only wake it up but the normal ways obviously didn't work.
"Leader one," he called into his comm. "I require your assistance, come to the Throne room."
"As you wish Megatron," came his Minicon's reply and he sat back to wait for him.
Megatron watched the dormant being with interest wondering why this one required something different than the others; also, if this one is still in stasis, how did the Autobots get their hands on it? After all, no alarm sounds when a Minicon is still asleep, right?
"Megatron, you called?" Leader One walked towards his master beeping questioningly.
"Yes... come here," The Minicon did and once he was on Megatron's lap he curiously watched what this one got in his hand. "I want you to explain me why this one is still dormant."
Leader One examined the shield then looked up at his master. "He needs his brothers to awake."
Frowning, Megaton asked; "How so and what for?"
"This one is a combinable Minicon, like Perceptor, the difference is that they don't form an individual, but a weapon, a shield actually; its known to your people as the Skyboom shield."
"I see... Interesting... how many brothers does he have?"
"Just another two. And they are also dormant somewhere."
"Can you awake him, somehow?" The warlord questioned his Minicon.
"I'm not sure," Leader One said cautiously, remembering how before he'd said it wouldn't be possible without the other Minicons. "It might be possible but it would take a lot of energy to activate him."
"How much energy?" Megatron demanded, he wanted this Minicon activated, if only so they could retrieve his brothers.
"Enough to animate a full grown Mech," Leader One answered and Megatron frowned, that was a lot of energy. Then again, they were very near an energy rich sun whose rays would soon fall on the base.
"Very well," he said finally. "We shall use this solar systems sun, which should provide enough energy."
Leader One nodded but couldn't help but say. "We should be careful, there will be a lot of residual energy from such a venture, you'll need to keep the Sparklings safe or it might have a bad effect on them."
Megatron waved away this; he would make sure they were safely locked away before anything happened. He smiled, if he could track down those Minicons, he'd soon have a weapon he could use against the Autobots. That would teach Optimus to interfere when it came to his Sparklings. That foolish Prime wouldn't know what hit him.
"Have everything prepared; I want this Minicon awake as soon as possible," The Decepticon leader ordered and his Minicon got up to go and gather some other Minicons to do as he ordered.
Megatron smirked and walked out following the other Minicons outside.
...
Meanwhile...
Megatron's personal quarters...
"How dare he?!" Carlos kicked the air as anger course through his body. "How dare he tell us to forget OUR parents and not love them anymore?!"
"He's crazy if he thinks we will stop loving them from night to morning!" Rad mussed as his hands balled into tight fists.
"We need to get out of here, now... find Alexis and get the hell out of here!" Carlos hurried as he reached for the control of the door. "How does this work?"
"It has a code... but... I guess it can be hacked..."
"Man! I wish Alexis was here, she's the one who knows about hacking systems," Carlos whined.
"I bet Megatron is trying to keep her away from us so she will remain ignorant to our situation and still 'love him'... she must be somewhere away from this room or he must have lied to her about what he just did to us," Rad concluded grimly.
"But... but... that's insane! Once she knows the truth, she will jump him!" Carlos said in confusion.
"Yes, and he knows that, and that's the reason she's not here... now, we must open this, get Alexis and get the hell out of here!"
"I agree... hmm..." Carlos seemed to think before something on a table caught his attention; he reached for it and saw that it was like a little knife. "This may work," he said as he inserted the sharp tip of the blade in the panel and pushed it down; the control sparked and the door unlocked revealing a small gap to their freedom.
"Cool! Where did you learn that?"
"I saw Resident Evil," he chuckled, grinning at his friend as the two pushed the door so this one had a bigger gap for them to leave their prison.
"Come on!" Rad said and both mechlings run looking for their friend, but something stopped them.
"What are the Minicons doing with all that stuff?" Carlos scratched the back of his head in thought.
"I don't know what's in Megaton's processors now, but we'd better check."
Both nodded and followed the Minicons without being noticed.
...
Outside the base was Megatron waiting for the Minicons to finish assembling the machine that will have the dormant one awaken, unaware that he had spectators...
"Is it ready?" The warlord questioned and Leader One nodded as he set the dormant Minicon on position. "Good, start now then."
"You'd better stand back my lord," Leader One warned him and Megatron nodded, walking a few paces back and standing partly behind a barrier for protection. He did not see that some distance away, the boys were watching from the inside of a crater, curious as to what they were doing with that Minicon shield.
"It's set," Leader One said softly, walking away from the shield and into position with a remote. "In three, two, one...go."
He pressed the button and several reflectors moved into position, capturing the powerful light of the sun's ray, bouncing all of the beams until they hit each other. There was a crackle as a massive ball of energy formed, sending little bolts of electricity flying away and sparking madly as it grew bigger and bigger until it was pure white. It was also spinning at an incredible rate, making the boys gasp in awe at the spectacle and then yelp slightly as it suddenly zapped downwards onto the Minicon panel.
The whole area was lit up as energy was literally shot into this Minicons, causing extra bolts to go shooting all over the place. The very atmosphere became highly charged and a few of the machine's systems began to short out, sparking furiously.
"I don't believe it," Rad cried but his voice was lost to Megatron and the others as the Minicon shield began to glow over the light already hitting it.
"It's working," Megatron said in triumph as the glow became brighter and brighter.
"Almost there," Leader One muttered to himself, keeping his hand on the remote so he could shut down the process before the Minicon was overloaded. "Almost...there!"
He hit the button and turned off the reflectors, allowing the ball of energy to dispense as the Minicon finished activating and there stood a white Minicon. He seemed rather dazed and staggered about on the pad his shield had been placed on. His fellow Minicons rushed to assist him as Megatron strode forward, smirking widely.
"Excellent," he softly, gazing down on his new Minicon. "What is your designation?"
"Uh," the new Minicon gasped, very disorientated.
"Please, give him time to recover, my lord." Leader one pointed and Megatron grunted. "Can you answer?"
"Mirage..." The dizzy Minicon answered. "Where am I? Where are my brothers?"
"That's what I want to know, can you find them?" Megatron stepped in.
"Ah.. uh... I guess..." Mirage beeped, a little unsure.
"Good, I want you to locate them now," Megatron ordered.
"Okay..." The Minicon said, noticing Megatron's arrogance.
Megatron and the Minicons walked back inside leaving behind the unconscious boys whose systems had been overloaded with the huge amount of energy. The consequence of which would become known very soon...
...
Minutes later...
"You got their location?" Megatron questioned and the Minicon beeped in a positive. "Good, let's go and retrieve them." He said taking Leader One and Mirage with him, stepped onto the Warp gate and disappeared through it.
They came into a forest area, and everything seemed to be extremely wet as it rained. "Uhh..." Megatron grunted in discomfort. "Call your brothers," He ordered and Mirage did so and they waited for the other two to reunite with their brother
...
Meanwhile...
Decepticon moon base...
Something sounded as it broke in the distance...
"What was that?" Wheeljack asked as he stopped cleaning his weapon to look up.
"Who cares, maybe Megatron is playing with those spawns of his!" Thrust mused as he polished his left wing then stopped as hurried steps were heard.
"If I was you, I wouldn't call Megaton's Sparklings that, he will not appreciate it and can punish you," Wheeljack pointed out.
"Bah! It's what they are, and he knows it, or why do you think he was about to beat the slag out of them?" The grey flier snorted. "It would have been fun to see that, seeing Megatron tearing apart his own creations..." He chuckled.
"How dare you say such a thing?! No sparkling deserves to be abused-!" He was interrupted as the two Mechlings stopped by the entrance. "Oh... hi!" He saluted cordially as they pierced him with their glare. Wheeljack gulped, this was not normal.
"Take it out on him," Tidalwave pointed Thrust with his finger as if knowing what was happening with them, but no one else seemed to.
"What?!" The seeker exclaimed before the two Mechlings snarled showing their little but pointy fangs and charged at him with a loud roar of battle. "AAHH! NOO! GET THEM OFF ME!" Thrust shook and ran trying to get rid of the Mechlings that were clawing and biting at every spot they could get as if wanting to tear into pieces the elder conehead.
Wheeljack just stood frozen and Tidealwave was inexpressive but hadn't moved a finger to help the screaming Jet.
"What is going on here?!" Demolisher came in a hurry, having heard all the noises and the girly screeches Thrust was making. However, the boys didn't stopped in their assault. "Kids! Stop this at once!" He tried to order them but was useless. Behind him, Cyclonus cackled at the scene.
"Stop!" He tried again and this time trying to separate Rad from Thrust's head, but got a harsh bit on his hand for daring to touch him and continued assaulting the seeker.
"Get them off me! Help!" Thrust was growing desperate and activated his thrusters and started flying and rolling all over the air trying to get rid of his attackers. But was useless, the boys had a very good grip.
"No! Thrust! get back here!" Demolisher screamed as the seeker flied uncontrollably everywhere trying to shove them off him. "Those are Megatron's Sparklings! He will kill you if you hurt them!"
"Get them off me, get them off me!" Was all the assaulted seeker could muster. "I'll kill these fragging spawns of Unicron!" He threatened clawing desperately at them not able to reach his weapons.
...
When Megatron returned, he was hoping to find everything in order, but to his constanation, this was furthest from the reality. All the noise that he received them was most defineitly not a welcoming one.
He could hear once he reached the centre of the noise the words: 'I'll kill these fragging spawns of Unicron!' and frowned and scowled once he found out who it was directed to.
"Thrust!" he barked out. "How dare you speak about my creations like that?!"
"Get them off me!" Thrust shrieked, becoming even more hysterical as the boys continued to attack him.
"Boys, get off him now," Megatron ordered, striding forward, wondering both how they'd escaped and why they were attacking Thrust. Had he been threatening towards them or was he just insolent?
But as he approached, Carlos was finally thrown from Thrust and rolled in the dust. He stood up, his whole body sparking with what looked like residual energy. As Megatron stared, Carlos looked right at him, optics glowing with fury and suddenly let out a war like cry.
"What?" Megatron exclaimed as Carlos suddenly charged forward and launched himself at him.
"Oh pit!" Wheeljack muttered as Megatron yelped in shock at his sparkling attacking him.
Meanwhile, Rad was biting Thrust's wing when he noticed what his brother was doing. Releasing the squealing jet, he also rushed at Megatron, snarling incoherently as his Sire tried to get Carlos off him. He roared in frustration when Rad latched onto him and barked.
"What are the pair of you doing, stop that at once!"
"NO!" Rad howled. "Hate you...hate you!"
"Uh," Demolisher said uncertainly, not sure if he should try to help his leader or not. This was getting rather awkward as his leader tried to grab his squirming Sparklings who somehow were managing to dodge him.
"What in the pit are you doing?! I order you to stop!" He roared at them.
"Evil!" Carlos snarled biting on one of his horns. "Hate you!"
"What are you saying, I'm your sire, you must obey me!" The elder tried to get his hands on them but once he managed to get Carlos, this one slashed him with claws he didn't know he possessed and the wound started to bleed.
"Fragg it! That's it!" Megatron barked throwing himself to the ground and rolling to get rid of them, but was still useless as they continued dodging him or the ground and clawed at his horns, face and torso with all the hate they could muster.
...
Meanwhile...
Medbay...
"Uhh... what happened?" Starscream rebooted his systems then looked at the surprised faces of Scavenger and Alexis.
"Welcome back, kid," The elder said and the seeker frowned. He was about to reply when...
"Starscream!" Alexis squealed and hugged him by the chest. "I was so afraid that I'd killed you... I will not mention anything related to reproduction again, I promise!"
The seeker flushed now remembering what really happened... they were flying when... "Starscream... do Mechs interface with Mechs?" was all he remembered before everything turned black.
"Uh... that would be a good idea... Alexis... uhh... you should not talk about this with random mechs... or femmes, it can give them the wrong idea," The seeker pointed out.
"He's right kiddo, if you want to know, wait until Megatron explains this for you, there are Mechs and femmes that will think that you... like it... or are available... or will like to show you."
She gasped and covered her mouth remembering Jetfire, whatever he was going to tell her was not-
A sudden roar interrupted her thoughts.
"What's going on?" Starscream asked in half shock, half worry.
"I don't know, but something tells me we must go and investigate." Scavenger said leaving the medbay closely followed by Starscream and Alexis.
...
"I order you to behave!" Megatron continued trying to get hold of his creations and finally managed to grab Rad who also slashed his claws on his wrist causing a horrible wound and the warlord threw his son against the wall without thinking.
However, this one recovered and started after his sire again.
"What the...?" Starscream exclaimed in shock as they came out onto the scene.
"Guys? Alexis said in confusion and shock. "W-what are you doing?"
They look possessed as they attempted to beat the crap out of Megatron and despite their small size; they were doing a pretty good job of it. Scavenger was also shocked, the boys had never struck him as violent but perhaps Megatron had pushed them too far. But there was something else too, they were sparking and their optics were glowing brighter than they should, something had badly affected them.
"Wheeljack, have you any idea what could have happened to them?" he demanded and the bot turned to him in confusion.
"No sir, Megatron just returned from retrieving some Minicons when these two attacked Thrust."
"Why are they sparking like that?" Scavenger asked instead, he needed an answer fast.
"Well...Megatron did do an experiment involving energy from that sun," Wheeljack said slowly. "I suppose if those two were caught in the residual storm..."
"Damn," Scavenger cursed, it didn't affect grown Mechs but for Sparklings, energy storms could set them haywire. He needed to put a stop to this before they damaged themselves.
"Starscream, I need a conduit to siphon off their excess energy," he commanded of the staring Seeker. "Get it for me now!"
"Right away," Starscream muttered, handing him Alexis as he hurried back into the base.
Placing her on the ground, Scavenger marched forward and managed to grab both boys and hold them at arm's length. They snarled and clawed, scoring some hits on his hands but he gritted his teeth against the pain and continued holding them by their scruff bars. He'd rather his hands got a little torn up than allow these kids to continue.
Megatron got to his feet, dripping Energon from various wounds as he demanded. "What in Primus' name was that all about?!"
"They got caught in an energy storm," Scavenger replied. "It overloaded their systems and sent them on a rampage; it's their bodies trying to get rid of the electrical energy. Starscream is just coming with the correct equipment."
"Primus," Megatron muttered rubbing a hand over his optics as the boys continued cursing him and everything around him.
"I've got it!" Starscream called running back over to them with two wires and a box. He attached a wire to each boy and before they could pull them out, activated the box. The boys jerked as the energy went from their bodies, along the wires and into the box, making them jerk and gasp. Finally, the energy left them and they went limp as Starscream quickly disconnected the wires.
"How did they manage to escape my quarters?! That's what I want to know!" Megatron barked.
"Escaped?" Alexis asked out loud and Megatron's optics widened; he had not noticed her there. "Why would they need to escape?"
"I didn't mean 'escape', I mean how they abandoned my quarters without me knowing," He added quickly petting her head. However, she was still frowning in thought that maybe something wrong happened and the boys were not 'asleep' as he claimed to her.
Starscream also frowned and watched the other Mechs how uneasy they become near the subject; yes, definitely something happened there. Only Megatron can ruin such a beautiful day.
"Come on; let's take them to the medbay..." He then turned to a lamenting Thrust who seemed to be weeping for his wounds. "If you want to heal, Thrust, I suggest you come to!" Megatron barked and charged to medbay with Scavenger, Thrust, Starscream, Alexis and Demolisher.
But then Alexis stopped and looked at Tidalwave then turned around on her feet and went to him without the others noticing.
"Tidalwave, right?" She directed the giant Mech who nodded. "Can you tell me what happened earlier with my... brothers once I left?"
"Megatron, furious, 'goin to beat mechlings, they remembered something he didn't want them to remember."
Alexis' jaw fell as she put two and two together... what is the only thing that will upset Megatron? The mention of their parents of course.
Wheeljack and Cyclonus were near and watched her pass in some kind of fury before the helicopter tried to stop her, it was not a good idea if she went to talk to their leader in that mood. "Hey, kid, we didn't finish talking, what do ya say?"
"Don't try to stop me, Cyclonus, he needs to know that he can't to do this to us!"
"Yes, but... you don't want to end up in his bad side, right? Remember he thinks you owe him obedience."
She growled and decided to stay and continue with their interrupted conversation. "So... when the mech's sparkling is ready to deliver, the mech feels a-"
"Naaah! Cyclonus, can you talk about something else, please?" Wheeljack pleaded covering his audios.
Both femmling and mech looked at him with huge rounded optics.
...
Moonbase medbay...
"Oww..." Thrust cried as he tried to hold his wing in one piece; the little runt with blue optics almost managed to tear it off.
"Hold still," Scavenger ordered brusquely, not feeling any sympathy for the wounded jet.
"Did you see what those little menaces did to my wings?" Thrust demanded hotly. "Megatron, you must bring them under control before they do something like this again!"
"They didn't have control over themselves," Scavenger said sharply. "They were over energised from residual energy; it made them aggressive to perceived threats."
"Then why did they attack me?" Megatron growled as Starscream tended to him while Perceptor took care of the boys. The combined Minicon preferred to stay in this form while with the Decepticons, he felt safer that way.
"I...do not think their entirely happy with you right now," Scavenger said cautiously. "Most children do not like being reprimanded."
Megatron scowled and said. "Well, they'd better get used to it if they continue to disobey and disrespect me. I will not have it."
Scavenger turned away, mentally sighing as he sealed up a gash on Thrust's wing, making the jet yelp and exclaim. "Watch it!"
"Be quiet!" Scavenger said before looking back at Megatron. "Sir, I think this is something you've got to calmly discuss with the children, including Alexis. This won't go away and she's bound to mention it at some point, do you really want to scare and beat her?"
Megatron just growled, glancing at the boys who were still unconscious.
Thrust looked from one Mech to the other and then decided to give his opinion. "It is a great idea, my lord, if she dares to disobey, what's better than a good beating to solve all problems?"
After that, Scavenger pulled harshly on his wing making him yelp. "Quiet! No one asked your opinion!"
Starscream was also looking daggers at his fellow wing mate as if wanting to sew that mouth of his shut! After all, the boys managed to tear off his facemask.
"Hmm..." Megatron considered that and Scavenger's optic's widened looking incredulously at the warlord. "Megatron, you can't be serious! If you beat them, at least once, you can send them here or kill them!"
Starscream also stopped on his work looking at his leader who turned and faced him in ire. "And who told you to stop?!"
"You can't beat them!" The seeker pointed in horror and Megatron's growl turned into a roar as he grabbed the seeker by the neck, albeit not so harshly because of his wounds.
"Don't you dare to tell me how to raise MY Sparklings!"
"They...urk...don't deserve to be your Sparklings," Starscream gasped, trying to pry Megatron's grip from his neck.
"You try my patience Starscream," Megatron growled, trying to tighten his grip but finding it hard after the damage his creations had done to it.
"Why won't you talk to them?" Starscream asked angrily. "Why do you insist on beating and shouting at them, thinking that'll force them to obey you. Why don't you try to get to know them, love them as you want them to love you."
"I shall do as I please!" Megatron snapped, shoving Starscream away before demanding. "Carry on with your task!"
But Starscream didn't, he stood there and said. "You've already hurt those two boys; I won't let you hurt Alexis!"
Before Megatron could shout at him, said boys started to groan and wake up.
"Aww man, what hit me?" groaned Carlos, bringing a hand to his head and holding it. "We didn't get drunk again did we?"
"No," Rad replied, he had no taste of energon in his mouth although he did taste something strange. He squinted against the harsh light of the Med Bay, wondering how they'd ended up there.
"Huh, Perceptor?" he said slowly, the combined Minicon being the first being he saw.
"You're okay now," He answered before being interrupted by Megatron.
"I just want to know... How you two escaped my quarters? If I ever find out how, you two will be harshly punished!"
Megatron's voice rose with each word until it reached the level of a roar. Both boys were startled and shivered before Rad talked back. "How dare you?! You're trying to gain our love and trust, and this is not the way!"
"I will use the methods I see fit and that I consider you deserve!" The warlord barked and both boys frowned at that.
"This is not the way..." Rad added and Megatron snorted. "Just... Tell me one thing... Dad... What will you do in our place? Will you love someone who-"
"I would not disrespect my sire!" Megatron interrupted his son.
"We've never disrespected you! You're the one disrespecting and abusing us! This would be so much easier if we were just your soldiers. Then you wouldn't dare to demand 'love' from us!" Carlos barked back. "This isn't love! This is a fucking obsession you have with us!"
Megatron stared for a second to his son in stunned awe before roaring in utter rage and started after his son. Many things could have happened... But what did happened was Thrust chuckling evilly once his leader charged after his son... But he fell from the berth due to his wounds.
Scavenger and Starscream grabbed him and hold him so he wouldn't end up beating his sparkling! "Release me! I'll teach them a lesson! They want to be treated like soldiers?! So be it!" He thrashed against his captors.
"Too bad that whoever did that to you didn't have your head ripped off!" Carlos continued pointing to his wounds and adding wood to the fire.
Megatron snarled and almost managed to rip himself from his soldier's arms, he was so enraged. Rad meanwhile turned away and said in a soft but still audible voice.
"You made a better master than father. The only thing you wanted was that we didn't run away or disrespect you which we understood because we were your prisoners. But you were still mostly kind to us and you didn't demand we love you, you didn't even demand that we like you. And you know what? We did come to like you for who you are, despite your faults."
Rad's voice trembled as he added. "Mom said we should be patient with you but I don't think she would ask us to be this patient!"
"You know nothing of her!" Megatron roared as Rad spun around and yelled. "I know she told you never to punish us when you were angry. Or to ever beat us like you've been trying to do. You didn't beat Alexis when she angered you, why do us being your actual children change that?!"
"Yeah!" Carlos said hotly. "Ever since you found out we were yours, you've been treating us like shit. Why...why do you hate us so much?! We can't help it that mom died and we were born as humans, why do you keep punishing us for that?!"
"Don't be ridiculous," Megatron said furiously. "That is not the case at all!"
"Really, then why do you keep trying to force us to do stuff?" Carlos demanded. "You either shout at us or try to beat us, Scavenger or Starscream keeps having to stop you. You're going to kill us dude, if you carry on."
"Yeah," Rad said grimly. "There's no point in Scavenger and Starscream holding you, you'll just kill us when they're not around cause we're going to make you angry again."
"You know nothing! You know nothing!" Megatron roared finally gaining enough strength to get himself free from his soldiers and charge after his sparklings. However, Starscream stopped him again, but the warlord punched him in the face sending him backwards, the same happened with Scavenger once he tried to do the same.
"Yessss... This is getting good..." Thrust said for himself quietly watching how his wish was about to come true and Megatron was finally about to reach his sons.
However...That is not what happened.
"DADDY NO!" Alexis cried and charged after him in order to stop him. She watched the whole scene as she convinced Cyclonus and Wheeljack to take her.
As Megatron felt that another being was going to try and stop him, his processor didn't processed who it was, and with a mighty roar he punched her in the face sending her spiralling backwards and crashing against a medical berth who broke from the impact.
Everybody stays frozen. Silence filled the whole base at the sight of the unconscious and now bleeding femmling. Megatron's rage vanishing completely and being replaced by a huge and cold feeling of dread...
...he just punched his daughter... And she had nothing to do with it...
"Alexis!" Rad and Carlos both cried, charging forward and running to her side, cradling her body to theirs.
"Alexis," they repeated as she lay limp in their arms, life force oozing from her body, like a broken doll.
"He...he hit her..." Cyclonus said dumbly, unable to process what he'd just seen. Everything happened so fast.
"Oh yes," Thrust said with relish, knowing that a storm was going to break and loving every moment of it. His master would surely reward him for this; the hate that would be unleashed would fuel him beyond anything he could have planned.
Wheeljack moved forward as Megatron stood there frozen, Scavenger and Starscream were stunned from the punches their leader had delivered. The former Autobot bent down and examined the little femling carefully before saying: "She's badly injured; she'll need urgent medical attention."
"Red Alert should fix her," Perceptor took the opportunity to beep also coming over. "He's the best medic in this part of the galaxy."
"Hmm," Wheeljack said with a grimace, loathe to suggest an Autobot but Perceptor was correct. None of the Decepticons here were specialised in the medical profession but Red Alert of the Autobots was. And if he didn't miss his guess, the little Femme would need the very best medic in order to fully recover, hell, to stop her from deactivating.
"I...believe he's right sir," Wheeljack said cautiously, not wanting to set off his leader again. "Red Alert's her best hope for recovery."
"An Autobot?" Megatron said slowly. "Give her to the Autobots?"
"Or have him come here," Wheeljack said quickly. "We don't have to give her to the Autobots but I think we do need him."
"Monster!" Carlos mumbled tearfully as he stroked Alexis's still face.
"How could you do this to her?! You bastard!" Rad cried.
"No..." Starscream whispered feeling how his spark grows cold. "You fragging afthole!" he charged after his frozen leader while cursing in cybertronian and punched him on the face and abdomen. "How could you?! How could you?!" he unleashed his rage against his now bleeding leader who did nothing to stop the assault for once.
The only one who seemed to have fun from this was Thrust who watched how no one lifted a finger stop his fellow seeker from attacking their leader. Once Starscream was spent, he quickly lifted himself from straddling his leader and went after Alexis' broken body and gently lifted her up.
It was then when something inside Megatron snapped. HE should be the one holding his daughter, not Starscream! "Let go of her!" He barked lifting himself from the ground and charged after the seeker. However, another Mech stood on his way.
"Get outta my way, Tidalwave! She's mine!" He roared in fury and jealousy.
Frowning, Carlos added in rage "We don't belong to y-mhmph!" Wheeljack clamped his hand against the boy's mouth to silence him.
"You should worry about your sister; cursing Megatron will get you nowhere!" The former Autobot hissed.
"Hey, Megatron! Starscream is escaping with your innion!" Thrust cried in fake worry as the other seeker left the medbay in silence and hurried to the warp gate.
"Get off my way!" the leader tried to get Tidalwave off, but the giant mech didn't even move a millimetre. "I will not let him take my innion to the Autobots-!"
A punch in the middle of the abdomen was enough to have him quiet bent and gasping. He looked up at his attacker... Demolisher...
"This has gone too far, Megatron. You really want your Sparklings dead? For her to die?"
Sadly the only things that crossed the leader's processors was 'she's mine...' over and over again.
Scavenger seemed to understand that and without uttering a word, reached for Megatron's neck and pinched a wire that got him off-lined and fell limp on the floor.
"Eek! Treason! Treason!" Thrust cried before lifting himself from the berth to runaway, but Tidalwave stopped him by slamming his face against his fist successfully offlining him too.
The boys remained in their spot motionless and frozen. A deadly silence filled the medbay and the whole base.
…
Meanwhile...
Earth...
Some unknown forests...
"Prime.. Please answer!" Starscream tried to communicate with the Autobots holding the unconscious and bleeding femmling.
'This is not what I wanted...' The seeker heard a sad feminine voice address him, but when he turned, nothing and no one was there.
Shaking off his fear, he tried to communicate with the Autobots again. "You'll be ok Alexis, you'll see..," he reassured himself more than her.
…
Autobot base...
"Sir... We have an incoming call from a comm-link... A decepticon call...," Blurr addressed himself to the Prime.
"Patch it through," Optimus ordered, wondering what Megatron wanted.
However, when the call came through it was not Megatron but Starscream.
"Autobots, I need your help," came the Seeker's desperate plea. "Alexis is badly hurt and needs medical attention!"
"What?!" Optimus exclaimed in shock before saying. "What happened, where are you?!"
"There's no time for that, I need your medic to look at her right now!" Starscream snapped.
Optimus didn't even hesitate, he said. "I'm patching our coordinates to you Starscream, you can Warp right through."
"Thank you," Starscream said gratefully, carefully holding Alexis to him as he received the coordinates for the Autobot base. He didn't even think about what he could do with this knowledge, all he cared about was saving the little femmling in his arms.
He activated the warp gate and a moment later, found himself in what appeared to be the Autobots' warp room. The Autobot Hotshot was waiting for him and his jaw dropped at the sight of Alexis and the energon that dripped from Starscream's arms. Before he could ask what had happened, Starscream said curtly.
"Never mind, take me to your Medic."
"R-right," Hotshot stammered, very shaken by the sight of the broken Femme, turning and hurrying out of the room, Starscream on his heels.
Red Alert had already been forewarned and they found him preparing his med bay for his little patient.
"Put her on the berth," He said tightly, scanning her as Starscream did as asked.
He grimaced before saying. "I'm going to have to ask you both to leave; I'll need absolute peace to do this. You may wait outside."
Starscream grumbled, he didn't want to leave her side but he recognised that Red Alert could not afford any distractions. And this was the Autobots base, he didn't have any authority here.
"Very well," he stated, turning on his heel and marching out of the room.
Outside, he found Optimus Prime waiting for him.
"How did this happen?" was the Prime's first question.
"Have a guess," Starscream growled sarcastically.
But before the Prime could answer, Jetfire appeared behind him and tackled him and Starscream out of his way and rushed into the medbay.
"My love! What happened to you?!" he cried.
Starscream frowned and blinked in confusion and Optimus couldn't help but face palm himself.
However, seconds later... "Jetfire! What are you doing here?! Get the frag out!" Red Alert's yells could be heard before groans followed as the shuttle flied out the medbay closely followed by a flying wrench.
"Does your echs act like this always?" The seeker couldn't help but ask.
"Uhh... Yes... Jetfire particularly... Well... How did you said this happened?" Optimus tried to resume the subject.
"Megatron... I really don't know where to start."
"From the beginning please."
"Well... Megatron... He was going to beat the boys and Alexis tried to stop him and he hit her instead... Like he would have hit a full grown Mech..." Starscream finished trailing off and resting his weight against the nearest wall feeling as if his strength suddenly left him.
"I feared this happening... Megatron... He was not made to be a single sire... Sometimes I wonder what are Primus' plans to bring them back and have them being abused by him...There was a reason why he was not a sire before," Optimus added sadly.
"Those kids... They don't deserve Megatron as sire... They are good kids... And he is destroying them!" Starscream lamented. "I swore I wouldn't let him hurt her like he did the boys... and minutes later he achieved that in the worst possible way... I... I failed..." The other Autobots were looking at him surprised.
Optimus, once noticing their presence, turned at them and frowned. "Go and find something to do, I know you're worried about Alexis but being here will not solve anything!"
"What about him? He's a Decepticon and Megatron's second," Blurr added quietly.
"I can assure you, Autobot," Starscream heard him nonetheless. "That I don't care what you Autobots do here, all I want is for that innocent femling to survive and recover! Or you think I'll have her Megatron break her neck just so I can see your secret plans or that perv's face?" he continued and pointed Jetfire at the end who seemed to be more focused on the medbay's doors than in what the seeker said.
"Huh, what?" he said, not even bothering to look around.
Starscream made a noise of disgust before marching away. Optimus turned to Blurr and said: "He took Alexis here instead of trying to fix her himself, he does care about her well being, more than his duty as a Decepticon."
"Hnn, maybe," Blurr said, still wary especially as he didn't know the children turned sparklings but he had to admit, this action he would not have expected of the Decepticon Seeker. Even if the Decepticons decided to come up with a trap, he actually couldn't really see any of them acting like this. Starscream did have a code of honour and deliberately maiming a sparkling to trick his enemies is something he'd never do.
"Would it make you feel better if I sent a Minicon after him?" Optimus questioned and Blurr considered it before shaking his head.
"No, I'm good," was all he said before walking away. He knew there was nothing he could do here and hanging outside the Med Bay achieved nothing.
Optimus sighed before glancing at the door of the Med Bay, wishing he could do something to help but knowing there was nothing he could do but wait.
...
The Decepticon base
"Will she be alright?" Carlos asked anxiously as Cyclonus cradled him to his chest.
"Um," Cyclonus said, unsure what to say as he glanced over at Demolisher who was holding Rad.
"That Autobot knows what he doing," Demolisher stated as Scavenger bent over Megatron. "Isn't that right?"
He directed his question at Wheeljack who slowly nodded. "From what I've heard."
"He hit her so hard," Carlos said brokenly. "She might die..."
"She's not going to die," Perceptor beeped fiercely, not wanting the boys to dwell on this. "She is strong, she will recover."
"If he doesn't hurt her again," Rad said darkly, glancing over at Megatron who was still unconscious.
"Megatron went too far this time... He's not good for this sparkling," Wheeljack whispered to Scavenger. "He's too violent for their welfare."
"No... But he's their sire... And if they are taken from him he will not rest until recovering them. He went already too far to make them change species, he won't stop and I'm afraid he might go crazy if they left."
"Demolisher told me the story, how mere pets become his own reborn creations... But still... There's a reason why Primus didn't allowed him to be a single sire before without his mate.
I've met Megatron and I owe him my life... But if I have to choose my loyalty to him or save those sparklings from his wrath, I'll choose the second."
Scavenger smiled. "Good to know that, they need to be protected... And they are suffering. No sparkling deserves that."
Silence followed for a while before one of them dared to speak again.
"You know what's weird?" Wheeljack added and the elder shook his head in denial. "That Thrust wanted this to happen, for Megatron to physically abuse his creations."
Scavenger frowned. If he hadn't liked Thrust earlier, he very much disliked him now.
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Hours later...
Decepticon moon base...
Medbay...
"Uhh..." Megatron moaned as his systems rebooted and his last memories came to him. Then onlined his optics at the sight of his offlined daughter. "Alexis... Ohh..!" he half shouted half moaned as pain soared his body as if he was repaired without the use of painkillers.
Then lifted himself on the berth and sat on his aft, and once he lifted his gaze he saw...
A very angry but no less beautiful femme. She shook her head in denial and her optics defeated her disappointment in him, and when he blinked back she was gone.
"Sliverblaze," he said in astonishment, surely his optics hadn't been deceiving him.
"Come...where did you go?" he called, trying to stand up and groaning in pain. "I need you..."
"Remember what I told you," came her voice and he looked around for her desperately but could detect no sign of her. "Love them like you loved me...and never punish them in anger. Why are you trying to force them to obey you?"
"I just want them to love me," he tried to explain, still trying to find her. "I am their Sire."
She made an exasperated sound before saying. "I do not know what has gotten into you, Rad is right; you did treat them better as pets."
As he gaped at this accusation, she continued.
"They can't and won't forget about their earth parents and I do not want them to, Megatron. They are capable of loving them, you and me equally and strongly. You will not lose them if they are allowed to see those parents again, if they love you, they won't want to leave you even if their earth parents are not happy."
"I...," he tried to say as she continued harshly. "Megatron, if you do not stop hurting them, then I will change them back to human and it will never be reversed."
"You wouldn't!" he gasped in shock, if they were made into humans again, he'd lose them. Even if he kept them, they'd soon die in a relatively short amount of time, he could not bare it if that happened.
"I will unless you change your ways," she told him sternly. "And I mean it Megatron."
"You can't, they will die!"
"Mark my words, Megatron, I will do it, Primus is with me on this and he's not happy either of you abusing them!"
"I do not abuse them!" He barked in indignation.
"You say? Then ask yourself this, why you think your own men had to stop you so she could receive proper care? Care that she should have never needed in the first place! All your soldiers saw how wrong you are! Why they can see it but you can't?!"
"Show me your face!" He demanded looking around and finally he saw her, sitting on the desk looking utterly angry. He'd never saw her like this before. "...Blaze..."
"Don't 'Blaze-me'! I mean it, Megatron, if I see you hurting our creations once again, that means they unhappy, they will be returned to their human bodies again and then only time will tell how long you will have with them!"
"NO!" Megatron screamed as he awoke and fell from the medical berth.
It was just a dream, but it felt so real... Just as his pain.
"Owww..." he was not a Mech who cried like a sparkling for his wounds, but every limb and Energon line in him hurts, frag, even his armour hurts!
It seemed like indeed his Mechs didn't used any drop of painkiller when they fixed him, and part of him couldn't help but think that he deserved it.
Once he weakly lifted his gaze, he found himself alone on medbay. Only Perceptor was with him and not really because he seemed to be on deep recharge if he didn't awoke from the noise he caused when fell.
Now he wondered where his creations were, the last thing he remembered was Starscream taking his daughter and he thought knowing where he took her... Now... Where were his sons hiding?
He groaned as he managed to haul himself to his feet, the first thing he needed was some painkillers before he went searching for them. His whole body was screaming for some sort of relief and he had to grit his teeth against the pain as his mind struggled to focus on the task at hand. Stumbling over to a medical container, he pressed a button and there was a hiss as the container opened, lifting up several different needles filled with wonderful painkillers. He chose a strong one and with a slightly shaky hand, managed to inject it into his systems. Leaning against a table, he sighed in relief as it flowed through his tubes and numbed away the pain.
"Now I can think," he muttered to himself.
Had his boys been taken to the Autobots as well? He dearly hoped not because it would be a devil of a time wrestling them from Optimus and he couldn't rely on them sneaking out this time. No, he would need to make sure they weren't there before he did anything else. Standing up straight and feeling grateful that his injuries had been taken care of even without painkillers and set off in search of both his men and Sparklings.
The corridors were deserted and he was unsure where to start first. Somehow, he didn't want to call any of his men, he just wanted to find his sons. Where they perhaps in the Rec Room getting some Energon? It seemed like a good place to start and so he set off in that direction. As he walked, he thought about 'Blaze and her words...and most importantly, her threat.
She had never been one to make idle ones so he had to assume she had meant every single word. But what was he to do, he just couldn't bear losing them! Could he change enough that they would never leave him? Would they ever forgive him for hurting Alexis so badly. They'd forgiven him for hitting Rad that one time but the circumstances had been different. He groaned, things had been easiest when they'd been his pets but he just had to deal with it.
He dearly hoped so... He needed them to forgive him, and now that he thought about it, it was not their fault that he had problems...
...it was his fault that they hated him... He was about to beat them... And in the end ended up beating the one he tried to protect from himself and her brothers.
He acted like an aft.
When he reached the rec room, no one was there; so... Where were they hiding? A quick thought make him walk towards Demolisher's quarters. Somehow something told him that his creations were with their guardians.
Once he reached his soldier's quarters and open the door he saw Rad sleeping on Demolisher's chest. A little thread of jealousy cursed through his spark and he walked forward to retrieve his sparkling.
But when he touched him and tried to pull him...
...Rad frowned, moaned in discomfort and clawed at Demolisher's armour with his newly discovered claws trying to stay where he was.
Demolisher grunted at the uncomfortable feeling of someone clawing at his armour and onlined his optics. To his surprise he found his leader trying to retrieve his creation from him.
"Lord Megatron?" He said.
"Give..Me...My...Mho mac...!" He continued trying to pull Rad from him.
That was enough to make the mechling to online his blue optics and claw Demolisher's armour tighter. "No... NO!" He said. "Don't make me go with him, please, Demolisher, please don't!" he cried and finally as Megatron didn't gave up released one of his hands and slashed his sire's wrists with his claws.
"Leave me alone! Demolisher, please make him go!" the mechling cried.
That make it and Demolisher wrapped his arms around Rad and moved himself away from Megatron. "Sorry my lord... The sparkling says no."
Megatron looked at him in shock as Rad wrapped his arms around his guardian. "Demolisher... Give. Me. My. Sparkling. Back! It is an order soldier!" he barked at the end and Rad flinched and hid his face from him.
"I'm afraid I can't do that, sir; anything but that."
He was about to argue but decided against it remembering Silverblaze's threat and stomped his way out. Maybe with Carlos will be much easier.
But once he tried, he got the same reaction he got from Rad with his other sparkling and the same with Cyclonus. Both mechs refused to handle him his sparklings, one was who knows where with the Autobots and his remaining sons seemed to fear him now.
He needed a cube... Or many...
...
Meanwhile on Earth...
"How is she?" Optimus asked as Red Alert finally came out of the Med Bay, wiping his hands.
"She'll survive," Red Alert said grimly, half glancing back. "And physically recover but I can't say how she will mentally. She's been through a lot and this might be one occasion too many. It's impossible to say right now, she isn't awake. I'll be keeping her under observation until she's much better."
"Thank you Red Alert," Optimus said gratefully as Jetfire nodded, they'd been here the whole time. "Is it possible to see her?"
"You may," Red Alert agreed before shooting Jetfire a sharp look. "But she's not to be disturbed, she needs to recharge and regain her strength."
"I just want to see her..." Jetfire mumbled, striding forward and into the Med Bay with Optimus.
Alexis lay on a berth surrounded by wires and cables that were monitoring her condition. She looked much better than earlier, she was clean of life force and Red Alert had done a brilliant job of patching her up. But the limp way she lay showed that it had been a close thing and Optimus felt his Spark clench in sympathy and anger for what she'd gone through.
"How could he do that?" Jetfire exclaimed hoarsely. "She's so sweet and innocent..."
"I don't know," Optimus growled. "But I would very much like to know why..."
"He was too angry," came a voice behind them and they turned to see Starscream standing there. "He was determined to beat his sons and when she tried to stop him, struck her without thinking."
Optimus didn't know what to say, he just couldn't understand why Megatron was acting like this. He claimed to love his Sparklings but continued to hurt them in new and increasingly cruel ways.
…
Meanwhile...
Megatron paced the rainy forest area he visited earlier with the Minicon Mirage to retrieve his brothers, but they could get only one. Now he could have cared less.
He needed to be alone... well... he was alone now.
Drinking the whole content of his high grade cube, he lamented being so harsh on his Sparklings; for his life he really couldn't say why he was so harsh on them. He always said that he will treat his creations with utter care and love...
...but the mention of their parents got him... vicious!
He couldn't help but being jealous of those others; they were the firsts ones with his Sparklings and for sure wanted to be the last ones.
"I'm an afthole... and all those insults Starscream said..." He said hoarsely in a drunk tone as he emptied another cube.
"Why?" Came a voice behind him. "What did you do to be so harsh on yourself?"
Megatron slowly turned to see who addressed him.
Author's note. Who is it that Megatron has found? Will Alexis get better? Can she and the boys very forgive Megatron? Find out next time, until then.