A Beautiful Distraction

Strongarm is different in this, instead of a "by-the-book cop" she's a criminal and loves that lifestyle. Also, a big thank you to my friends who helped me with this.

Also, if you're reading this without reading my The Wolf-Con and the Cadet series, or are reading this before reading that, the other Wolf-Cons that are with Steeljaw are OCs my, now ex, friend and I came up with for that series. They appear in book three of that series.

Enjoy!

Nighttime fell over Cybertron and all you could hear and see were the lights of the planet and bots bustling around. But this night was special, for this night a masquerade party was being held at the Cybertronian Historian Museum to celebrate a special finding. They have been using so much they learned from the humans so they figured why not take one of their types of parties. In all the mining they did on Earth and other planets they came across crystalized Red and Dark Energon, they had been sitting for so long that they crystalized and are now like rare, expensive crystals. They're putting it in the museum as a reminder of their encounters, along with all sorts of stuff from the war.

Steeljaw and his pack were outside, watching the bots flood into the museum, they were planning on stealing the crystal Energon to make some big credits off it. Steeljaw put on his mask as he got ready to go in, he was going in alone so as not to raise suspicion. He had a plan all set out for this and he was certain he wouldn't fail.

He wore a cat-like mask that covered his snout a bit to conceal his identity so as not to let on to who he was, he was one of the most wanted criminals on Cybertron and every bot knew of him, so he had to be careful not to let his identity be known or this heist would be a complete fail.

He began heading over to the entrance when he was grabbed by the arm. He looked back and saw the Wolf-Con femme, Quickshadow, holding his arm and looking at him with love in her optics. She had been in love with him since she first met him. Her optics roamed over his face with admiration, "You look hot in that mask," she said in a seductive tone as she rubbed his arm.

"Quickshadow, quit trying to seduce our boss," her brother Voltstrike said trying to get her off Steeljaw.

Quickshadow growled at him as she continued to hang onto Steeljaw, "We're in love and we plan on being together, now stop bugging us!" She says as she wraps her tail around Steeljaw's.

Steeljaw rolled his optics and sighed as he pulled his tail away and free of hers, but he looked at her with his signature smirk. "Thank you, babe, I appreciate the compliment. But if you could let me go now so I can get to work that would be nice."

Quickshadow grinned as she released his arm, but before he could leave she grabbed him and tried to kiss him on the lips, he saw it coming and he moved his helm so she kissed his cheek instead. She pouted and he chuckled, "No kissing on the lips, babe, not until after mating," he tells her as he gets free and heads to the museum, quickly. He shivered in disgust as he walked to the doors, he couldn't stand that femme.

He'll admit she is decent looking but there's just something about her that he just hates, he can't stand being by her, he can't stand the way she throws herself at him and he can't stand her kissing him, and saying they're in love and will be mates. He honestly doesn't want any of that, not with any femme and certainly not with her.

He only puts up with her being around because of her three brothers, he wants them in his pack so he puts up with their sister. But he will never love her or mate with her, mating just isn't in his plan for his future. If he can find a femme that can win him over and steal his spark he will make an exception, but there has been no such femme so far.

He enters the museum and is amazed by the magnificence of the place, he never stepped inside this museum before due to the fact he hates this kind of place, he only made an exception for tonight to steal the crystal Energon. He looked around in amazement at all the artifacts and gems, if he had known there were such treasures in here he would have looked into robbing this place beforehand.

He saw red and purple metal streamers line the walls and across over the ceiling which had specially made lights planted all across. Steeljaw looked at the many different artifacts that sat on pedestals along the hallways and throughout rooms, all artifacts from the war used by both Autobots and Decepticons.

There was, of course, a protective layer of glass and laser beams surrounding all the artifacts and gems, all valuables, but Steeljaw knew how to get past that stuff so he could easily get past that security and get the items if he really wanted to. But he's only here for one thing tonight, he'll just have to come back another time for the rest.

He makes it to the room where they're holding the crystal Energon, he goes in and takes a look just like all the other guests. It's beautiful, more beautiful than he imagined it to be. He sees it's guarded by two guards but has a heavy layer of protective glass around it, as he figured, but he had a way to get past the guards and the protective glass. First, he's gonna use the charms he's highly known for. He noticed one of the guards was a femme, score.

He begins to make his way over to her, keeping his optics on his prey, when he bumps into something. On instinct he reaches out to grab whatever he bumped into as he notices it falling back, he looks at what he bumped into and sees it wasn't something but someone.

A femme with blue and white armor, a slim body with big breastplates and pump blue lips that looked kissable. He also noticed she had big audio receptors like that Wrecker Wheeljack had. She also had on a cat mask but the nose part was smaller and it had feathers and gems around it while his mask just had little designs. Because of the mask, he couldn't see her face, all he could see was her optics, her beautiful blue optics that seemed to mesmerize him. There was just something about them, and her, that was drawing him in, making him want to know who she was.

He snapped out of his trance when the femme started speaking, "Pardon me, sir. I didn't mean to bump into you."

"No, it was my fault. I should have watched where I was going." Wait, what!? I never take the blame for anything! I need to get away from this femme.

"I'm pretty sure I'm safe now, you can let me go."

Steeljaw smirked, since he was in this situation he might as well flirt and make this femme melt, "Why? Don't you like being held?" He asked in his charming, seductive tone he always uses to charm the metal off a femme. "I like to hold a beautiful femme like you."

The femme raised an optic ridge and slightly cocked her helm, "Oh? And what makes you think I want to be held by you? What you said was flattering but not that flattering. Now if you would be so kind as to let me go."

Steeljaw was taken aback, no femme has ever refused him or not melted to his charms. His smirk returned, even wider than before, this was getting interesting. "You like to play hard to get, huh? No femme has ever refused me and all femmes melt to my touch and charms."

"So you're that type, you think you can get any femme you want with just a smirk and a sweet word. You're very cocky and arrogant," she says as she removes his arms. She sees his surprised and speechless look and smiles as she leans in close to his audio receptor, "If you want to make me melt you'll have to try harder than that, big boy," she says in a slightly seductive tone as a tease. She grazes her fingers over his stomach, to add to the tease, as she walks off.

Steeljaw stands there in bewilderment, still trying to grasp what just happened, starting to come out of it when he feels her fingers grazing his stomach. He looks over to the guard he was about to charm then back to the femme that just left him speechless for the first time ever, he never gets distracted from his goals, he always follows his plans to the last. But this femme, she's making him want to divert from his plans, to talk to her and try to get to know her.

Distraction. That's the word for her, a beautiful distraction.

He growls to himself as he takes off in the direction she went, he looks all throughout the room and through the crowd until he spots her heading towards a hallway. He goes to follow her as she walks down the hallway, looking at artifacts and stuff along the way. He gets closer to her and once they pass a door he gets to her and grabs her servo to pull her into the room that was there, which turned out to be another showroom but was empty since everyone was in the other room looking at the crystal Energon.

Steeljaw closes the door and looks over at the femme who looked at him in shock, "You're a tease. I never met a femme that was such a tease and certainly never been rendered speechless by one, not by any bot but definitely not by a femme," he says as he pulls her close to him and slowly pushes her up against the wall.

"There's a first time for everything. And that's rich you're calling me a tease when you're a player," the femme said as she noticed what he was doing and tried to get away, but no luck. She soon finds herself up against the wall with the mech in front of her, blocking her escape.

"What makes you think I'm a player? I could just be a mech that's looking for the right femme and hasn't found her yet." He's not lying, he hasn't found the right femme yet so he's playing the field until he does.

The femme scoffs, "So you're just playing around until you find the femme you want? Nice excuse, but not all that believable."

Steeljaw sets himself on his forearms as he leans in closer to her, he is becoming more and more intrigued by this femme. "You doubt me? And what is your excuse for being a tease?"

The femme places her servos behind her back as she tries to look innocent, "I don't know, maybe I wanted to see what your reaction would be. Maybe I wanted to give you a taste of your own medicine."

Steeljaw gave her a questioning look, "A taste of my own medicine?"

"Yeah. You're so flirtatious and teasing, leading femmes on to thinking they will have a chance with you only to be disappointed when you leave them."

Steeljaw looked at her in surprise, "How exactly do you know that?"

The femme smirked as she leaned in closer to his face, "You'll never know because I'm not telling."

Steeljaw looks into her optics before glancing down to her lips, he finds himself leaning further in to kiss her but when he gets inches away from her lips he feels his feet going from underneath him and he suddenly finds himself on the floor. He looks up and sees the femme standing over him, he realizes she swept his feet before slamming him to the floor. He looks at her in surprise then admiration, "Sorry, but I don't kiss on the first date," she said jokingly with a wink. He couldn't see the wink that well behind the mask but he still could tell she did it.

He watched her as she walked out of the room and back into the hallway, "What just happened?" He asked himself as he once again tried to grasp what just occurred. Once again this femme left him speechless and bewildered. She knocked him off his feet, she actually caught him off guard and knocked him off his feet. He shook his helm to bring himself back to reality and got up to walk out of the room.

The first thing he did when he walked out was look to see where the femme had gone, but no sign of her, so he went to get back to his objective. He growled and cursed himself for letting himself get distracted by the femme. On top of that, he tried to kiss her, he never tried to kiss any femme before. He knows what kissing a mech or a femme on the lips means for Wolf-Cons, it's a sign you want them as your mate.

That's another reason why he wouldn't let Quickshadow kiss him on the lips because it would have meant he wanted to mate with her and he doesn't. Why did he try to kiss that femme? Surely he doesn't want to mate with her, does he? Steeljaw was brought out of his thoughts when the lights went out. Screams could be heard as officials try to calm down everyone. Perfect. Steeljaw thought as he made his way to where the crystal Energon was.

But before he could get there the lights came back on and more screams rang out as they saw the two guards that were guarding the crystal Energon lying on the floor dead, and the crystal Energon was gone. Who took it?

Steeljaw looked around to see who could have taken it and saw a figure running away, heading out of the museum. He went after them, he was gonna get that crystal Energon even if it meant killing the bot. He chased the bot out of the museum and out into the streets, they soon found themselves in an alleyway far from the other bots including his pack.

Once they got to a bridge that was placed over a lake the bot stopped and turned to face Steeljaw who came to a stop and looked at them in shock as he realized who the bot was. It was the femme from earlier, "You? You stole the crystal Energon?"

The femme chuckled at his reaction, "Why so surprised?"

"Not sure, you just don't seem like the type. Were you the one who killed the guards as well?"

"Yep," the femme said as she beamed with pride like what she did was a good thing.

"Didn't think an Autobot would do such a thing. Impressive."

"Why thank you, Steeljaw," she says with a smirk.

Steeljaw growled at her, "How do you know who I am?"

"You have a great reputation. You're highly known throughout the police academy."

Steeljaw glared at her and let out a vicious growl, "You're a cop!?" He asks as he starts looking around for other cops. I can't believe I fell for a trap!

"Calm down, I'm not a cop anymore. Now I only pretend to be one to get out of situations. Don't worry, it's not a trap."

Steeljaw started settling down but kept his guard up, "What made you switch?"

"A friend from the academy, she decided to try a criminal life and she took me down with her. I found myself enjoying the criminal life more than the cop life," she replied before an idea popped into her processor. "I tell you what, to prove I'm on your side and mean you no harm I'll give you the crystal Energon," she said as she held out the case that was holding the crystal Energon with her hip cocked out.

Steeljaw carefully moved towards her and grabbed the case, but as he did he grabbed her servo and pulled her closer to him. He carefully placed the case on the ground as he looked at her, "You know who I am..." He began as he reached to take off his mask, after putting the mask away he reached to take off hers. "...but I don't know who you are."

She grabbed his servo before he could remove her mask, "It's for the best."

Steeljaw looked at her a bit confused, "How come?"

"I'm a cop who turned into a criminal, it's best if I stay a mystery. Besides, you'll forget me anyways, as you do with all the femmes you toy with so what's the point."

"Not even gonna tell me your name?"

"What's in a name?"

"What?" Steeljaw asked as he looked at her in confusion.

The femme giggled, "It's a human saying, something from a play of theirs. From what I understand it means there's nothing about a name, it's just another word to use, should focus more on the person."

"That's... rather a good point. I never considered that. You're smart." Steeljaw places his free servo on her back and pulls her closer, "But not smart enough, for you shouldn't refuse to tell me what I want to know. I'll take that as a challenge and one way or another I will find the answers I'm looking for. I'll find out who you are."

"Then do so."

Steeljaw smirked as he got closer to her face, "Challenge accepted," he said as he got closer to her lips. Something came over him, some kind of animalistic desire that caused him to take his next action, and he kissed her, very passionately. The femme hesitated for a moment before kissing him back as she placed a servo on his chest. Steeljaw's processor was suddenly consumed with one thought.

Mate.

He will make this femme his mate no matter what, and nothing will stop him.

Steeljaw was forced to break the kiss when he heard the howls of the other Wolf-Cons that were in his pack, they were all looking for him. He looked in the direction the howls came from and growled slightly, not realizing his grip on the femme's servo was loosening. Once he felt her pull her servo away from him he looked back to her to see her walking off towards the bridge. "Wait, why don't you come with me and join my pack? I could use a bot like you."

The femme stopped and looked back at him, "Afraid I can't, I'm leaving the city to go to another where I'm not known. This heist was my last in this city and was supposed to be like a parting gift for myself. But I got even more than I planned on, I had a lot of fun, Steeljaw."

"Will I see you again?" The words came out of his mouth before he could stop them, but he really did want to see her again which was strange for him.

She looked at him for a moment before responding, "Do you believe in fate, Steeljaw?"

Steeljaw raised an optic ridge to her question, "Not really. Why?"

"I do, and I believe if fate will allow it we will meet again one day." She turned around and transformed before driving off.

Steeljaw stood there watching her drive off before he turned to pick up the case with the crystal Energon. He examined it closely and saw it was all there completely intact, he then looked back in the direction the femme had left. "I don't believe in fate because I make my own and I assure you, my dear, we will meet again because you now have something of mine I want back."

Steeljaw heard the running of feet and he looked back to see his pack running toward him, "Steeljaw, baby! Are you alright?" Quickshadow shouted as she threw herself on him hugging him tightly.

"I'm fine," Steeljaw responded as he tried to push her off of him.

"You gave us quite the scare, boss," Razorclaw, one of Quickshadow's brothers, said.

"Not too scared, we knew you could handle yourself," Saborfang, the other brother, added.

"You're right, I can handle myself," Steeljaw responded as Quickshadow clung to his arm and looked at him all dreamy-like.

"I see you got the crystal Energon," she spoke up.

"Sure did," Steeljaw responded with a wide grin.

"But what youse doin' out here?" Asked Thunderhoof who was standing with the Wolf-Cons. He works with Steeljaw and his pack on mutual grounds with an agreement that he gets a share of anything they steal.

"I had to get out of there and I decided to go this way," he lied because he didn't want to tell them about the femme. Especially in front of Quickshadow, "Let's head home before the cops catch onto us."

They all nodded and transformed before heading home. All the while, Steeljaw thought about the mysterious femme that's stolen his spark, and he was filled with a feeling he was quite familiar with.

Want.

But not like wanting an expensive artifact or gems or credits. He wants to see her again. He wants to hold her and kiss her again. He wants to know her. He wants her. He's now determined to find out all he can about her and meet up with her again so he can steal her spark like she stole his.