Skywarp winces in pain as the degrading tattoo is engraved into the plating between his wings.
It is apparently how the leaders of the syndicate protects their most valuable assets, when the slave leaves the protection of its owner.
Torrent's mark is the star and tells the lower ranking members of the syndicate, that if they damage the slave without permission, then they will be faced with the wrath of their operative leader.
The thought should have been comforting, but it isn't, because Torrent clearly wants him to suffer.
All he can do is show his submission and not aggravate his precarious situation further.
Hopefully the Joint Investigation Unit will be able to locate them again.
The silver paint is applied to the engraved star beside the number 574349, and he hisses at the stinging pain it creates in the superficial wounds.
"Perfect." He hears Torrent's satisfied voice, "Your transport is inbound, but first..."
Torrent leans down and stares into his optics with a sadistic smile, "...there is that unfinished business between you and Thundercracker."
The cuffs that fixate him to the berth unlocks and he is allowed to rise.
Thundercracker is still lying on an examination table while a physician works between his legs, and Skywarp looks away in discomfort.
"I'm going to miss filling that valve with my transfluid." Torrent sighs with a perverted longing in his voice, and Skywarp fights to not let the fact that Torrent continuously has been raping Thundercracker affect him.
It is what Torrent wants to achieve with his comment.
The physician finishes cleaning Thundercracker's reproduction systems of Torrent's CNA, and Torrent walks over to help the blue seeker rise.
Thundercracker keeps his facade of distanced indifference towards what they both know is going to happen, and Skywarp obediently follows him and Torrent as they leave the medical bay.
Torrent leads Thundercracker into the insemination room.
"You know what I expect of you. Be a good little carrier and help him do his duty, okay?" He murmurs softly into the blue seeker's audio and caresses gently along a blue wing.
Thundercracker's facade begins to crack at the sight of the all too familiar surroundings, and tears fall from his optics.
Torrent kisses them away and stares into the sad optics with a smile.
"I might let you keep this one as a memory of him."
He turns away from the visibly shocked Thundercracker and moves towards the door.
"Wait! You promised me that you wouldn't kill him if I persuaded him to submit." Thundercracker says in panic.
He turns around and regards the blue seeker thoughtfully.
"That is true, but I never promised you that you would be together."
"But..."
"Love." He says derisively as he turns around and leaves the room, "The strongest motivation and greatest weakness."
The door closes, and Thundercracker sinks to the floor in despair.
"Your arm." Torrent holds out his hand, and Skywarp reluctantly places his right arm in it.
"Keep it still." He orders and grabs firmly around the arm while he withdraws a syringe from subspace, "This will ensure that you perform your duty to my utmost satisfaction."
"NO!" Skywarp struggles fiercely against Torrent's grip and manages to break free, but the guards flanking him grabs his arm and forces him to keep it still.
"NO! NO! NO!"
The needle slides easily into a large energon line, and Torrent injects the content into the seeker while Skywarp futilely struggles against what is happening.
"Relax. I promise you, that you will love what I have planned for you."
He pulls the needle out and hands the empty syringe to one of the guards.
The guards let go on Skywarp, and Torrent observes the immediate change as the content of the syringe begins to affect the seeker's processor.
"Listen to me, Skywarp." He orders the now deranged and sexually aroused seeker, when the drug has reached its full effect, "I want you to go in there and rape that pretty little valve until it bleeds and then force him to a merge. You can take him any way you want, but I demand, that you overload directly into his gestation chamber at least twice. Is that understood?"
"Yes."
"Good. Let's not keep him waiting." He says and walks into the control room, that is adjacent to the insemination room.
"The connections are established."
"The live feed is up and running."
"We are ready to record."
The technicians report as he sits down and looks through the one-way mirror at Thundercracker.
He tests the microphone and gets a thumb up.
Perfect.
Time for the show to begin.
::Let him in.:: He orders the guards, and the door opens.
Skywarp growls threateningly when the guards push him into the insemination room, but he forgets them the moment his optics lands on the blue carrier on the floor inside the room.
His spike releases and he rubs it lustfully as he walks closer to the carrier.
Thundercracker is paralyzed by fear as he stares up at Skywarp and into the sire's deranged optics.
He recognizes the mind-altering effect of the syndicate's special concoction of psychoactive drugs. Torrent used a milder version of it on him the first few days, and he knows from his previous time as a slave, that continuous use results in a permanent affect of the victims processor and change in behavior.
"Skywarp..." He whispers brokenly, and he doesn't fight against it when Skywarp forces the rigid spike between his lips.
Skywarp groans and forces his spike deeper and deeper into the wet heat around him.
"Suck it!" He orders and feels an inexperienced tongue caress along his shaft while the carrier hesitantly begins to suck.
The feeling is wonderful and he can already feel his overload approach. His hips undulate against the lips around his spike, and he is able to force it deeper and deeper into the carrier's tight throat.
Thundercracker struggles against the choking, but Skywarp is merciless and holds his spike there until he overloads with a deep groan. He inhales desperately and coughs violently, when Skywarp finally pulls out, and the strange bitter taste of the sire's transfluid fills him with nausea.
"Dear friends." Torrent's business-like voice sounds from the speakers inside the room, "Today I have the great pleasure to present a recently reacquired high-value slave."
Tears fill his optics at the situation's incomprehensibility, and he remains passive as Skywarp lifts him from the floor and places him on the berth, where the sire moves between his legs and impatiently begins to pry his valve cover open.
"He is not yet tamed, but will surely be a strong alpha when he has been trained."
He hurries to slide his cover aside to avoid damage to it, and Skywarp leans down to bite hard in his anterior node. He screams in pain, and a reflexive, desperate and well-placed kick of his right thruster forces Skywarp away from his vulnerable node.
Horror fills him at the realization of what he just did and he stares terrified while Skywarp, with a furious growl, once again positions between his legs.
"His CNA is exceptional. You all know our little side project, and he has delivered an essential part, that ensures that it will succeed when we launch it."
"I didn't mean to... Please don't hurt me." He whimpers at the sight of the fury in the sire's mad optics.
Skywarp furiously grabs the carrier's hands and forces them to lie against the berth above the blue seeker's head. The carrier whimpers in fear, but he ignores the sound and positions himself at the entrance to the valve, before he begins to slowly penetrate it with a steady pressure.
"NO! Stop! It hurts! STOP!"
"As you can see, he is very enamored with my own little 391, and I look forward to see what their shared CNA can produce."
The carrier is writhing beneath him, and he hisses lowly in pleasure at the stimulation to his spike when the valve frantically clenches around him.
"You are such a delicious little valve and I am going to enjoy filling you." He says lustfully when his spike reaches the gestation chamber. With a last push, he activates its opening mechanism and pulls out almost completely before he pushes inward again with a deep lustful groan.
"574349 will be available to you within the next few weeks. Now, enjoy the rest of the show."
Thundercracker writhes in unbearable pain while Skywarp takes him. His dry and unprepared valve constantly sends a painful feedback while its sensitive sensors are stimulated by a friction, that isn't mitigated by its missing natural lubrication.
Energon seeps from microscopic wounds in his valve lining and eases the friction between spike and valve, but it doesn't remove the pain entirely while Skywarp rapes him. The sire overloads and thrusts deep into him with short convulsive movements of the hips, and he feels how his gestation chamber fills with the ejaculated transfluids.
Skywarp leans down and kisses him possessively, and he reciprocates it softly while tears run down his cheeks.
"Good little valve." Skywarp praises and pulls out of the valve. He notices the wet shine of energon on his spike and looks emotionlessly towards the one-way mirror.
Torrent turns his attention away from the ongoing insemination when the door into the control room opens.
"Did I miss all the fun?" Retrograde asks as she enters.
"If I had known you would come personally, then I would have postponed it until you arrived." He comments and rises to allow her his chair.
"So this is his lover?"
Skywarp is once again raping Thundercracker, and she studies the black and purple seeker curiously. Black hands caresses sensually along blue wings while the sire takes Thundercracker from behind, and she frowns when the blue seeker overloads from the stimulation to his wings.
"How much did you give him?"
"Full dose."
"Interesting. It seems like he is trying to resist."
Skywarp opens his chestplates and his spark chamber, and waits calmly for Thundercracker to do the same instead of forcing the merge, as Torrent had ordered him to do.
"Love." She sneers at the sight, "It is a dangerous weakness we need to purge. Which brings me back to something I wanted to discuss with you."
She swivels the chair and looks up at Torrent with a bright smile, while the deadly sharp cables emerge from the tips of the modified digits on her right hand.
"How do you want 391's memories altered? Or do you want a full reformatting?"
Her outlier ability is reaching out to the minds of everyone present in the room, and Torrent smiles as she gently caresses his mind without doing harm.
"Erase everything that are related to their feelings for each other. Alter his experience of being together with 574349 and create a few new affectionate memories of me, that I can use to form a positive relation between him and me when I visit him."
Their attention return to the two slaves inside the insemination room when the merge is initiated with a blinding light, and Torrent turns to the guard standing at the entrance to the control room.
"Separate them."
He leans down to speak into the microphone.
"I hope, that you all enjoyed watching 574349's initiation as a insemination sire in our breeding program. I certainly did. Iacon out."
Skywarp is forced away from Thundercracker, and Torrent and Retrograde leaves the control room to enter the insemination room.
Thundercracker is crying violently while caressing his midsection, and Retrograde walks over to sit down beside him.
"Why are you crying?" She asks softly and caresses Thundercracker's mind with her own.
The tears stop and the slave looks at her in confusion.
"I..."
She looks into the confused optics and smiles friendly.
"...don't know."
"You and Torrent are waiting a sparkling. You should be happy."
"We do?" Thundercracker looks down at himself in growing confusion and notices the first sign of his sparked state.
How could he forget?
A strange sensation within his spark tells him that he has forgotten something else, that is just as important, but he can't remember what.