Pairing: TFP Arcee/Shockwave

Rating: Mature

Details/Themes: Blackmail, sexual tension, breeding kink mention

Requested by Dark-Subtext

This was bad. This was extremely bad. She had almost exposed herself a few cycles ago to all of reformed Cybertron with a comment she made regarding the fallen including her brother, the brother no one knew she had. Hardwire was not just family but he was a Decepticon and if word got out she was related to a Decepticon, her life among the Autobots would be damaged. Although she knew some like Optimus and the main eight of his team would forgive her secret and treat her the same way, others would not take the news very sound as they did not know her as well as Team Prime. In the back of her mind, somebody had to have pieced that blunder of a comment together. It was only a matter of time before it escaped to the public now!

"A secret is not a secret when it is shared for all to hear."

Arcee stopped pacing and turned with hidden fear at the origin of the voice. From the shadows appeared Shockwave, the one person other than Megatron she knew damn well not to take on alone. The mech drew close, audial fins twitching in thought. He stopped within a few feet of her, observing how she held her ground.

The scientist resisted the illogical urge to laugh at her feeble attempt to stand up against his lumbering presence. "You belong with the Decepticons if you are related to one. You should have been on Megatron's side of the war. Why did you abandon your own?"

The femme's optics narrowed, "I chose my side. Just because Hardwire was a Decepticon does not mean I had to go with him. As much as I loved my brother, he died doing the wrong thing. We both know that."

"To you, yes, but to me, I find his sacrifice for the greater good of Cybertron to be logical. You should have too. But he is not why I am here. The discovery of you being a Decepticon has awoken several of us including me to rethink plans of conquering our world back. Even Megatron was a bit surprised to hear of you though he still wishes not to be a part of anything we Decepticons do but like all bots, he can be persuaded to change his mind and return as our rightful leader."

"First off, again I'm not a Decepticon. Secondly, I don't give a damn what you or your cannon fodder think. You aren't taking Cybertron, period! So get it through your processor: I want nothing to do with you," the motorcycle growled preparing to walk away.

Shockwave did not move but he replied, "And you would leave your secret in the servos of someone who can and would give the order for it to be leaked from here to Earth, leaving you at the mercy of those you consider your friends? When this gets out, who will you be able to turn to? I am offering you a chance of clemency and it will be my only proposition."

She was stumped. Shockwave was right. Not meeting his optic as she returned to face him, she sighed, "What do you want?"

"I want you. You see the Decepticon Empire lost all its femmes on Cybertron sans Airachnid and we have been low on breeding ever since considering mechs cannot produce as many sparklings as femmes can and the process to spawn an army takes much longer. You are adequate size and can bear roughly four to five batches of triplet and quadruplet sparklings per stellar cycle, nearly triple what most mechs can do in several stellar cycles."

Arcee backed away but Shockwave began to follow, optic trained on her like a hawk. Her small wing kibble pressed against the wall as she found herself out of room. He paused again but this time she nearly touched his abdomen.

"With you technically being a Decepticon, you belong to the Empire itself and you are therefore required to obey me. Starscream has disappeared so the Decepticon throne has nobody except Cyclonus and me and since Cyclonus is busy with another problem, this makes me the temporary leader. The leaders are more than often the alpha breeder in most species including those from Earth. To make progress and to monitor the rebirth of the Decepticon Empire, I shall be your mate as I do not trust your well-being in the servos of others. Bearing in mind you are...beautiful, most other Decepticons would resort to illogical methods to obtain you, methods that I will kill others for if they decided to carry them out upon you."

She groaned, "Wouldn't being among the Decepticons automatically give away my secret too?"

The mech shook his helm, "No, you will aid us in private and when you become impregnated, I can help you hide your condition from wandering optics. Believe it or not, this is not the first time I have done such a thing for someone."

Arcee admitted she was a bit overwhelmed by all the information, some of which she never wanted to hear but there was a chance it was her only option. If Shockwave proved true and she left letting him reveal the secret, she would be damned. If they found out she was the mate of a Con, she'd be even more screwed. Either way, it was a lose-lose situation.

Shockwave extended a servo to her openly, a sign that she had to make a choice. "Join me to honor your brother. I promise it will not be as bad as you were led to be certain of. It is your destiny now."

Her brother would be proud again. Hesitantly, she took it.

AN: Shockwave's a bit unusual to pair someone with especially in this particular universe. Like I can imagine he does wish the best for a mate and would not just use him or her as a slave but he wouldn't know exactly how to show he cares. He wouldn't harm Arcee I believe but he might not know what to do to make her happy to be with him either.