I am so excited. This story is being well received and it makes me so happy. I am glad that everyone likes it. It is not easy for me to write this story and I am trying to update everyday as much as possible because I want to finish it quickly. Like I said earlier, this was an idea that popped into my head when I was trying to finish up "United".
If you are reading for the first time please take a moment to review. I really love to hear what my readers think and feel, and I am sorry Bee4ever, but Optimus will honor his word. He is Prime, after all, and for him to back out would be like lying. Enjoy!
Soundwave woke to Arcee lying on top of his chassis and smiled at her. It seemed that she was unsettled even in recharge and that she had moved from his side to on top as she shuffled in her slumber.
"Good morning." He said softly, tenderly cradling her so that she would not fall off. Laserbeak resting in between them did not make it easy for her and slowly Soundwave pulled both himself and her up until they were leaning against the headboard of the berth and sitting up. He carefully maneuvered her legs until she was sitting astride him, their pelvic plating touching without the heat buildup between them. Soundwave's spark stirred in recognition of his mate but he didn't want to seduce, not just yet.
"Are you feeling better? Usually you tease me about being quiet." He said compassionately as she smiled.
"No, it just occurred to me that I am really carrying." Arcee said softly, her optics tender as she smiled at Soundwave. "I never thought I was the type that would want a sparkling. Tailgate used to tease me about it." She smile shyly at him and Soundwave laughed softly.
"You will need plenty of rest. It will make it easier on you as your body adjust to the changes. I have pinged Knockout and he says that Ratchet has made the refined energon that you will need. Shockwave has already had the drones place it in the cooling chambers in the rec room so that it will be available for you." He ran his hands up her arms and Arcee giggled. Carrying would make her more sensitive to her body as the spark within would pulse and connect with her so that they would have an instant bond. Soundwave felt warmth flood their bond and he smiled as he realized that she was coming to the same conclusions which spread joy and happiness within her spark.
"What will happen to Optimus?" She asked switching subject as fast as a car changing lanes. Soundwave thought a moment before answering her question. He didn't want to lie but he also knew that Megatron's and Optimus' relationship was vastly different than theirs. Soundwave was quiet and patient whereas Megatron was forceful and dominant. Optimus was mulishly stubborn, as Soundwave had found out when he was previously on the Nemeses, to the point of stirring trouble while Arcee could be stubborn but also recognized her boundaries. It would be an interesting pairing but necessary to achieve peace in the aftermath of war.
"Optimus Prime is an honorable mech. He will honor his word." Soundwave gave the same answer to her that he gave his master hoping that would appease her.
"Will Megatron strip him like he did me?" Arcee wondered as she absentmindedly stroked the side of Soundwave's visor.
"I don't think so. He likes admiring it too much." Soundwave answered in amusement remembering how Megatron checked the Prime out several times while Prime was being led and then cuffed for transportation. "I need you to get up. Have you had your daily wash yet?" Soundwave asked.
"Yes, I had it last night while I was waiting for you to come back." Arcee stated as she pulled back before dropping her legs to the side of the berth and standing up. She swayed suddenly and Soundwave rushed up to catch her before she fell. "Does it just start suddenly? Carrying?" She looked up at her mate with confusion on her face plates.
"This is your first time?" Soundwave already knew the answer but femmes did not have to have mates to carry like mechs did and he wanted to confirm it.
"Yes." Arcee replied quietly looking down as if in embarrassment. Soundwave pulled her chin up with his claws very gently as he looked into the sapphire blue of her optics.
"There is nothing wrong in choosing to wait until you are bonded. My previous mate was bonded from the moment she was upgraded into her adult frame. I was hooked the moment she decided that I was the one." Soundwave smiled ruefully at the memory of Radio Star's stalking him as a youngling and then squealing when Soundwave formally asked her creators if he could court and bond with her. She was a hell fire and Unicron all mixed in a tight neat femme package and her red and black armor was a contrast to his navy with purple accents. Frenzy and Rumble took after her in their glorious way of causing mischief and chaos and Soundwave missed them terribly.
"I didn't have much of a choice. Tailgate and Cliffjumper were brothers in arms and Bulk… well let's just say he is sweet but I don't want to be crushed if he should stumble or trip over anything. He is such a klutz and Ratchet is too old. I would have loved it if Prime took an interest but he was so tied up with the war and taking care of us that he was more a father figure than a potential mate." She told him as she wrapped her hands around his arms that still held her helm.
"I am glad. I have wanted you since we came to earth. You are spunky and feisty. I have never cared for sedate femmes. My personality makes up for that!" Soundwave smiled and Arcee laughed.
"Yes, I would never have thought there was a personality period." Arcee said but then turned serious as she remembered what had started the conversation.
"This is just the initial stage of carrying. Soon the symptoms will stop and you will feel better, but to be sure, you need to get out of berth slowly and carefully until your body acclimates to the extra spark." Soundwave told her as he pulled her against him and they hugged before he quickly let her go and headed to the wash racks. Arcee smiled ruefully as she watched his slender backside strut confidently through the door before hearing the water turn on. She turned and slowly started making their berth grimacing as the barely there armor did more to reveal than to conceal.
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Optimus slowly opened his optics and the first thing he noticed was that the berth was not a metal slab but an actual berth. The second thing was the dark room he was in and the third was that there was an arm around his waist and a warm body pressed against his backside.
He groaned as the memories of the previous day and night caught up with him, his friends being led away with him in a transport, seeing Ratchet as he helped Knockout remove their weapons and t-cogs, of Bumblebee actually crying softly as Optimus was restrained on the med berth and the same done to him, and then he being led down the opposite of the corridor from his comrades before Knockout laying him on another berth and administering a sedative so that he would recharge. He had gone willingly though in his CPU he was screaming at the unfairness of it all, but he had given his word and Optimus never went back on his word.
The hand moved and travelled down to his pelvic plates before tweaking gently at the wires lying just beneath the armor and Optimus bit back a half groan half moan. He staid still so as not to encourage the claw because just the right move and it would go from pleasurable to painful and Optimus needed his strength.
"Good morning my dear sweet spark." Megatron cooed softly, mockingly into his audial. Well so much for quiet. It would seem that Megatron was recharged and ready to begin the daily snarking.
"Morning Megatron though I have yet to deem whether it is good or not." Optimus replied. He felt the warlord roll him to his back as he towered over him and Optimus tried not to shy away from the touch on his chassis. Megatron then sat up while pulling one of Optimus' legs up to bend it while Megatron sat between them completely exposing Prime's pelvic area.
"You needed your recharge last night after a grueling day on the battlefield but I see that you are now refreshed and ready to begin the rest of our lives." Megatron purred softly as he gloated over Optimus. Optimus guessed he had a right since he did surrender to him, but still it stung that after all these years this is how his life would evolve into. He would become a pleasure drone to this tyrant, this monster who had destroyed so many of his friends and soldiers on the battlefield.
"Go ahead Megatron, just get it over." Optimus muttered defiantly.
"Oh I intend to, but I also don't want to cause any unnecessary harm. That medic of yours is quite irrational. He would sooner murder me in my recharge if I should harm you intentionally." Megatron smiled down at him and then bent down to kiss him on the lip plates.
Optimus tasted of the finest energon and Megatron couldn't stop the growl emanating from low in his engine. His spark pulsed suddenly outward, calling for its mate and Optimus gasped from the pleasurable sensation. He reached to grasp at Megatron shoulders as Megatron shifted his legs until they were pelvic to pelvic plate, but Megatron also remembered Soundwave instructing him to spark merge first and settle the bond before any interfacing. Carrying mechs and femmes tended to be more insecure in unwanted bonds when interfacing was first before the merge and Megatron wanted Prime to know that he was wanted not just because he was a carrier.
Optimus grunted at the shift, the sudden change causing him to stiffen and protest silently against Megatron. He tried to push Megatron away but the warlord only took his hands in his claws and pressed them down against the berth until Optimus has no choice but to allow Megatron to kiss and nip at his armor.
"My soldiers, are they safe?" Optimus asked breathlessly as he felt his systems heat, his pelvic plate itch to be exposed to the cool air, and his spark throb within its chamber.
"Yes, Ratchet will be your personal medic as well as take care of Arcee and any others that are not comfortable with Knockout. Your little scout and that retched Smokescreen have been giving quarters to share, though they are not allowed out, and Bulkhead will be going with Dreadwing to help oversee construction on Cybertron."
"Thank you Megatron, thank you for honoring your word." Optimus said softly. He hesitated a little before opening his chest plates which surprised Megatron. "I gave you my word that I would honor a bond if you spared my soldiers." The young prime looked up into the dark ruby optics of his future mate and forced his body to relax.
Megatron watched him for a few more moments as he realized that this was exactly why Soundwave had been confident. He knew that Prime was true to his word. He was nothing like the previous primes that had wanted to strip him and others that they deemed unworthy down to nothing but mere drones. Underneath the body that the Matrix of Leadership had built within his former lover was still remnants of his Orion and Soundwave, being the telepathic that he is, sensed it when Optimus had lost his memories and had briefly stayed on the Nemeses.
This could work, but only if the Matrix would now accept Megatron as Prime's Lord High Protector. Megatron opened his chest plates and a purplish goulash light suddenly countered the brilliant silver and gold of Optimus' light. Megatron almost felt shame at what he had become by letting dark energon run through his circuits and flood his spark, but what was done is done and now only the Matrix accepting him mattered.
Megatron lowered his body slowly as Prime bunched the covers on the berth between his fingers in preparation of their sparks touching. Megatron felt Optimus raise his leg and shift beneath him as though he might try to get away, but Megatron knew that Optimus would not resist for long.
As tendrils touched tentatively at first, Optimus gasped out and arched upward, and Megatron growled at the pleasant sensation that the merge was causing. He moved closer bringing their chests closer and Megatron felt the first emotional reaction from Prime.
Optimus cried out. The sensation was intense and he clenched the covers tighter as Megatron came to settle over him and their sparks finally become one. He felt elation and happiness from Megatron and was surprised that the tyrant didn't want him as a slave but as an equal; that he had always seen Optimus as an equal, but snatched from him by the senate. It was why he had bombed the senate and destroyed the building. Megatron had been spark broken to lose his lover, Orion.
"I didn't know. No one told me what you had lost." Optimus pleaded broken by the revelation that his enemy had wanted the same things that he did. The senate had lied to him and now Optimus realized that the Matrix had been speaking on the battlefield to him.
"I was angry at them, at you for not remembering. I wanted to kill you because you had taken Orion from me." Megatron said as they explored each other's memories, each other's pain. Megatron saw what killing did to Optimus whether it was Autobot or Decepticon, and why Optimus was so hesitant yet fiercely adamant about ending the war.
""I never meant to hurt anyone, but I had a duty to Cybertron, to everyone that Primus holds dear." Optimus choked out a cry as the energy built higher and higher within, the bond sealing itself, and the Matrix rejoicing that two strong were no united as one.
"I wanted to burn Cybertron, burn everything and anything that got in my way for revenge of losing you." That rage was simmering still, but also was the knowledge that though Optimus had initially lost his memories of Orion and his lover, that person was still within the Prime, and that the Matrix had approved of his choice for Lord High Protector.
As both mechs cried out in overload, they both realized that the start was still shaky but it was also a new beginning for both of them.
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Arcee sipped at the sweet energon that her mate had drawn for her from the cooling hold. As usual, Soundwave had her sitting in his lap though today he let her drink her energon at her leisure. Ratchet was sitting with Shockwave and Arcee was surprised to see the two in a deep discussion about a project that Shockwave was working on. The sadistic scientist had been on the 'wanted dead' posts within the Autobot ranks and to see Ratchet so chummy with him boggled Arcee's CPU. Soundwave watched with amusement as Starscream and Knockout walked in each overseeing to Bumblebee and Smokescreen.
Bumblebee broke from Starscream's grip and ran over to see Arcee as soon as he spotted her and Arcee smiled up at the young scout.
"Hey Bee." She said softly, almost shyly. It was not the most comfortable meeting for her as she was in Soundwave's lap like a pet but she was still glad to see her friend.
"Hey." Bee buzzed back quickly. "You okay?" He asked softly.
"Yes. Soundwave has taken good care of me and I have not been harmed." She told him. She looked over to see Knockout lead Smokescreen over to stand next to Bumblebee.
"Hey Arcee, we thought you were deactivated." Smokescreen said as he smiled at the femme. "I guess you are not."
"No I am certainly not." She agreed nodding at him. "Where's Bulk?"
"We haven't seen him though Starscream says that he is with Dreadwing back on Cybertron. Arcee you should have seen the energy that the Omega Lock used to rebuild Kaon. It was incredible. We also saw Dark Mount from the flight pad. It is here on earth. Knockout says that I will be helping move supplies from med bay to Dark Mount today." Smokescreen added on and Arcee looked up to Soudnwave.
"Is it true? Are we staying here on earth instead of going home?" She asked. "What about Jack, the humans, what will become of them?"
"Lord Megatorn will deal with that. Jack is being delivered to our quarters while you are refueling, but once you have had your visit, he will be sent home to his creator." Soundwave informed her.
"He hasn't been harmed?" She asked as she glared at her mate.
"No, he is fine if a bit upset at being taken captive." Soundwave said.
"Bumblebee, come. You need your energon before your duties start." Starscream tugged on his arm to lead him away. And Knockout did the same to Smokescreen.
"Bye Arcee, maybe we can visit tonight after we are through." Smokescreen said as he walked away.
"Bye guys." Arcee called to them. She turned back to look at Soundwave. "Why are they being put to work? I mean I thought they would be prisoners."
"Megatron and Prime came to an agreement. They would bond on the condition that Prime's soldiers are not enslaved. They will have to earn their freedom but our race would be united once again." Soundwave told her but before she could comment the doors to the rec room opened again and Megatorn led Optimus in gently as Soundwave had done to her that first time. Arcee gasped as she saw Optimus look around, Bumblebee and Smokescreen were restrained by the seeker and medic, and even Ratchet stopped talking to Shockwave as he saw his friend and superior walk in next to the warlord.
"Ah good, everyone is here." Megatron said happily. "It will please you to know that your Prime upheld his word and that the bond took. I am now your Lord High Protector as Optimus is now my Prime. As High Protector and Consort to the Prime I trust that you have all understood the terms of the agreement and we will not have any fighting among each other nor defiance will not be tolerated in any manner. Last night Soundwave sent a communication out stating that the war is over and any Autobot surrendering shall not be a prisoner but will be integrated into society as a civilian. The Decepticons will now be in control of military operations and any policing will be handled by us as well. If an Autobot wishes to be a part of civilian policing efforts then they will have to be approved of by me." Megatron stopped as abruptly as he started and then motioned for Optimus to walk to the table that Soundwave and Arcee occupied.
"Well Soundwave, I see that congratulations are in order." Megatron said as he sat down and then pulled a chair up so that Optimus could sit with them. He did so never taking his optics off of Arcee and she squirmed uncomfortably in Soundwave's lap.
"Thank you Lord Megatron. Congratulations to you on the success of your bond." Soundwave said and Megatron smiled in gratitude of Soundwave's compliment.
"Arcee?" Optimus asked softly, gently.
"It's okay. I am not harmed." She whispered shamefully. She should have fought harder, more valiantly, or tried to escape. She should have tried to warm Optimus but now it was too late.
"Arcee, look at me." Optimus commanded softly. Arcee looked up into his sad optics with remorse and saw that even through all that they had been through; Optimus was more concerned for her than his own self.
"It is going to be okay." He told her. Megatron looked on in content and Soundwave held her by the waist, but Arcee reached over and put her hands in Optimus' and smiled sadly.
"I know, but I still feel responsible because I knew what was being planned and I couldn't escape to warn you." She told him sadly, shamefully.
"Prime is correct. It is not your fault." Soundwave said in comfort and Optimus smiled at the mech.
"Thank you Soundwave; did you let her know that Jack is here?" He asked as he felt Megatron take his hand in his own claws after Arcee let go.
"I did. He is being delivered to our quarters while Arcee is refueling." Soundwave replied. Megatron stood and went to get two cubes for refueling before returning.
"As you can see, Bumblebee and Smokescreen are in good hands. They will be helping to unload supplies from the Nemeses. They will still be guarded and carefully watched, but should they comply they can work towards their freedom. It will be some time before a former Autobot can hold a position of leadership, but if they pledge their loyalty to me I can find no reason for them not to be able to earn it." Megatron told both Prime and Arcee. Arcee looked over to the other two mechs and then glanced at Ratchet. All three were watching the command table with keen interest, most importantly Prime. He would always be their leader and if he should defy Megatron then they would defy the warlord along with him.
"Optimus don't take too long. I did think about feeding you like Soundwave did to Arcee, but I haven't the patience." Megatron smirked at the femme while she glared back at him.
"Optimus would probably throw it in your face." Arcee said rather bitchily and Megatron laughed.
"Already, those hormones are unbalanced. The sparkling that you carry will give you something to do." He said rather brutishly as he pulled Optimus closer to him. He took a drink from his cube and then open mouthed kissed Optimus in front of them in a display of dominance. "I look forward to our sparkling when Primus blesses us with one." He said it never taking his optics off of Optimus and Arcee shuddered in Soundwave's lap.
"Soundwave, I don't feel well. Can we get some fresh air?" She asked looking away from the two mechs and focusing on her own mate.
"Come, a little will be good but then you need your rest." Soundwave helped her to stand before nodding in respect to Megatron and then Optimus. He led them outside and headed for the flight deck with Arcee quietly following his lead.