Chapter 5: Promise Kept

POV Neonna

I was watching the two gladiator's battle for what felt like forever when in reality it was only a few seconds. I would wince every time Megatronus would get hit by Arron, but then I would see him get back up on his feet and fight again.

"Oo, he's a cunning one isn't he?" my father said observantly when he saw Megatronus kick Arron in the abdomen.

I just groaned as I continued to watch the match go on. The two had been going at each other for five minutes now. Then their blades clashed together again as the two were talking to each other. I couldn't really hear what they were saying exactly but I had a feeling that they were talking about me.

Then they broke away from each other and started to use their blades against each other to try and slash the other. That is when I saw Arron kick Megatronus in the abdomen as he slashed at Megatronus' leg. I held my breath when he cried out in pain as Arron walked towards him, grabbed him, lifted his body up into the air, and cut his shoulder as energon was leaking everywhere.

He crashed to the ground hard as my spark literally stopped beating for a split second. Arron came over to where Megatronus was lying limp on the ground. Arron raised his wrist blades above Megatronus' head.

My spark sank to the bottom of my fuel tank. My optics were filled with lubricant as I watch in horror at what was to become of my friend that was risking his own spark so that I'm not harassed by my ex anymore.

"Megatronus!" I shouted as the lubricant ran freely down my faceplate. The blades then came down on the gladiator as everyone held their breath for what would happen next.

POV Megatronus

I couldn't believe my optics. Arron was going to kill me! It was against the code of the arena to kill a gladiator during combat unless the crowd wills it. But 95% of the time they wouldn't want the opponent or challenger to die.

Even right now I can hear the roars of disapproval from the crowd when Arron's blades was posed to strike and end my existence.

"Good bye, Megatronus" he said to me.

I closed my optics in shame as I silently whispered, "I have failed you, Neonna."

Just as Arron was about to strike me, I heard someone calling my name.

"Megatronus!" I heard Neonna calling my name despite the hundreds of thousands of other people screaming and shouting.

Neonna. I thought to myself when I felt my spark beating a different rhythm as this new strength filled my body with new found determination.

Once Arron swung his blade at me, a loud clang sound erupted the deathly silence of the arena.

I heard everyone gasped as I caught the two blades with my servos. My eyes were closed for only a few seconds before I quickly opened them hatefully to see Arron's surprised expression.

Then I twisted his arm as I heard him cry out in pain. I let go of his blades and punched him in the faceplate. He flew a few feet backwards before he fell down on one knee. I then knocked him down flat against the ground with my foot.

He looked at me hatefully as I pointed my blade against his chest plate. I laughed as I said, "How quickly things changed, for only a moment ago I was on the ground and you were hovering above me to end my life."

"What are you going to do now? End my life as I tried to end yours?" Arron asked.

I narrowed my optics at him as I said, "No, I am not a ruthless killer like you. Do you admit defeat, Arron the Terrible?"

He growled under my foot as he turned his head to the side and said, "I yield."

"And the winner of tonight's match is Megatronus!" said the referee in the microphone. A wave of cheer sounded in the air as I got my foot off of Arron and started to limp to the exit of the battlefield.

Little did I know was that Arron transformed his servo into his blaster and took aim at me. He was charging his gun as he whispered, "If I can't have her, than neither will you."

I heard a blast go off as I turned around to see that Arron fired his blaster at me. I was about to use my own blaster to negate his attack, but I was too weak to defend myself.

Then I heard a small humming of an aircraft as I saw Shadowwave's Mini-Con, Laserbeak. Laserbeak fired her own blaster to negate the blast that was going to hit me.

Then I turned to see a black blur running towards me. The black blur was Shadowwave coming to help me. He turned to where Arron was and ordered Laserbeak to stun Arron telepathically.

Arron was blasted by Laserbeak's stun blaster as he collapse on the ground.

Laserbeak then came back to Shadowwave as she attacked herself on Shadowwave's chest plate. Shadowwave then grabbed me so that I could lean on him for support as we walked closer to the exit of the battlefield.

As we walked away from Arron, we heard him shouting, "You will rue this day, Megatronus! I will have my revenge. You hear me!"

Shadowwave and I just kept on walking while Arron was being taken away by some of the other gladiators who came out to help.

We slowly made our way to the medical bay of the arena. I said to my friend in a low raspy voice, "Thank you for helping me, Shad."

He turned to me and replied, "You know that I'm always here for you, my friend."

I nodded my head slowly in reply.

We entered the medical room as Shadowwave called out, "Ratchet! We need medical help, now!"

Ratchet ran towards us and said, "By the AllSpark! Quickly bring him to the medical table!"

I was carried over towards the medical table as Ratchet quickly got his medical kit and started to weld my right leg so that no more energon would leak from my wound.

"Ow" I said as I winced in pain from the welding.

"Hold still, please" he said as he continued fixing up my deep gash wound.

Then we heard a commotion outside the medical room.

"Ma'am I'm sorry but you can't go beyond the public area of the arena" said a security mech.

"Please, I have to see if he's alright" pleaded a familiar femme's voice.

My optics widened in realization of who that voice belonged to.

Ratchet stopped welding as he went to the door to see who was there. He mumbled something that I didn't quite hear as he said, "Excuse me ma'am, but only other gladiators or family member are allowed here. Are you Megatronus' blood relative?"

Neonna sighed as she replied, "No."

"Then I advise you to leave so that I may continue repairing Megatronus' wounds" he said to the femme.

I weakly said to the medic, "Let her in here."

Ratchet turned around and look at me and retorted, "You know the rules around here. No unauthorized people are allowed unless they are family members."

I looked at him as I pleaded, "Please."

Ratchet looked at me for a second before mumbling, "We're going to be in trouble for this." He then sighed before he turned to the security mech and said, "She can be here."

"But sir she's not…." the mech said before Ratchet cut him off.

"Megatronus insists that she come and see him" the medic retorted.

The guard nodded in reply before he let Neonna through. She came into the room to look for me. She finally saw me and smiled lovingly to see that I was alright. I couldn't help but smile right back at her.

Ratchet then walked back into the room while mumbling to himself before he got back to work on repairing my leg.

"Is he going to be okay?" Neonna asked with concern for my health.

"He'll be fine. Could you please pass me that polisher on the table that's next to you?" Ratchet said.

Neonna nodded and grab the tool that Ratchet requested and put it in his servo.

"Thank you" he said as he used the polisher to buff out the rough edges of my wound.

After Ratchet completely fixed my leg, he then move on to my wounded shoulder.

The torch hurt me a little as I said, "Hey, I need that arm, Ratchet."

"Well, if you would just stay still for just a few more seconds, I can finish welding this wound back up so that rust poisoning doesn't infect your body" retorted the medic as he continued his work.

"By the way, who did this much damage to you anyway?" he asked me.

I was about to reply when Neonna cut in.

"He was battling against Arron the Terrible" she said with hatred in her tone.

"I see" Ratchet replied after checking my wound over again before he said, "Well, I would advise you to rest and not do any strenuous work that may cause your welding to crack or reopen."

"We will make sure that he rests, doctor" said Neonna as she came over to me and whipped off the bit of energon that was still on my face with a clean wet cloth.

I blushed a little from her kind action. Ratchet rolled his optics before he went into another room to work on something.

"I have to go, I promised Thunderdash that I would help him train for his gold cup" said Shadowwave as he was leaving to go help our friend.

"Wait, you two know the famous speedster Thunderdash?" she asked us.

We both look at each other before we said simultaneously, "Yes."

"Wow, I've never guessed that you two would know the speedy athlete from the Blue Lighting Team in Rocketball!" she exclaimed enthusiastically.

"I thought that you don't like sports?" I asked to her.

"Rocketball is an exception. Plus, my baby cousin got me into it, so the sport kind of grew on me" she said while folding her arms.

"Well, I guess I will tell Thunderdash that your girlfriend and her cousin are a huge fan of his" Shadowwave said teasingly.

Both Neonna and I blushed as we retorted at the same time, "I am not her/his boy/girlfriend!"

Shadowwave only chuckled to himself before he left us alone.

Once he was gone, Neonna turned to me and slapped me in the faceplate.

"Ow! What was that for?" I asked as I rubbed my faceplate where she slapped me.

"That was for scaring me half to death!" she retorted angrily.

I grimace a bit before she came closer to me and kissed me on my cheek. My spark skipped a beat from the kiss that my cheeks started to heat up.

I looked at her before she said, "That was for….keeping your promise."

We looked into each other's optics for a while before Neonna said, "I...I got to go." She then started to walk out of the room before I called her back.

"Wait" I cried out to her. She turned around and looked at me to see what I want to tell her before she could leave. "I umm…" I said as I struggled for words to ask her for her comlink number.

I saw her look at me curiously before I finally worked up the courage and asked, "I know this is kinda sudden, but may I have your comlink number so that we can...ugh you know hang out sometime?"

She blushed a little before she smiled and looked around for something to write with. She grabbed a pen and took my hand and started to write her number on my left palm. She then left the room as I just stared in shock that she was okay with giving me her number.

Then I heard someone chuckeling as I turned to see Ratchet staring at me with a smile on his faceplate. I blushed even more before I asked him, "How long were you standing there?"

"Long enough to see you timidly asking a femme her number" he said with a smirk.

I blushed even more as I retorted, "You try asking a femme that you only just met the other day her number!"

He just laughed as he replied, "I'm just messing around with you. Anyway I have to go back to the hospital now. Are you well enough to get home, Mega?"

"Yeah, I think so" I replied to him as he nodded in reply and left the medical room.

I sighed before I whispered to myself, "Who knew that I was a timid kind of mech."