The Beauty and the Predacon {ON HOLD}

Chapter 15

Arcee climbs off Predaking when they return to the Nemesis, her spark filled with joy and sadness. She's happy that she got to see her team again but she's sad that she had to leave them. She pushes the emotions aside as she watches Predaking transform, she must help him break free from Megatron, she's determined to help him. 

Predaking transforms and looks at her, he felt her mix of emotions before she suddenly pushed them to the side. He wishes she wouldn't be sad but he can understand, she cares about them greatly and wants to be with them again. Which is why he's surprised she didn't attempt to go back with them, he honestly thought she would. He knows he told her that if she went with them back to their base he would have hunted her down, but in all honesty, he would have just let her go.

As much as he wants and longs for her to stay with him he wants her to be happy, and being with her team would do that. Arcee turns to look at him and she motions for him to get down on his knees so he can be nearer to her height. He does so without hesitation and she throws her arms around his neck, hugging him as she buries her face into his neck. His optics widened as he did not expect this at all.

"Thank you, Predaking," she says before she pulls back to look into his optics, "Thank you so much for letting me see my team again. I'm very grateful." She kisses him on the cheek. As she pulls back, Predaking places a servo on the back of her helm and kisses her on the mouth. Arcee was shocked but she didn't pull away, she closed her optics and kissed him back. She guesses he researched this as much as everything else, it seems he really wants to be serious about this and do things right.

Arcee's spark quickens as the kiss goes on and the more she thinks about what he's done to make sure she's happy, all fears she had of this mech have completely vanished and been replaced with feelings of warmth and happiness. Predaking pulls back and looks into her optics, "I hope you didn't mind that, I've been wanting to kiss you for a while now."

Arcee smiles at him, "I didn't mind." She feels her spark flutter as she looks into his optics and it quickly starts to dawn on her, she's falling in love with this mech. Her mech, her Predacon, her Predaking, he's hers as much as she's his and she'll stop at nothing to save him from Megatron.

Predaking's optics widened as Arcee unknowingly sent him a small wave of love through their bond, but before he could say anything both of their attention was pulled towards the door as it opened. They see Starscream walking towards them and Predaking gets to his feet so he can attack Starscream if he tries anything.

Starscream looks at the pair as he walks closer to them, he's filled with disgust and anger at the thought of these two being sparkbonded and mated. Arcee shouldn't be bonded to a beast like him, she should be with a regular Cybertronian like himself. When Megatron mentioned that he was planning on giving her to one of them he was thrilled, he thought up a devious plan to make sure she went to him, but then the damn Predacon got in the way and she went to him instead. Starscream seemed to not care when Megatron told Predaking he could have Arcee, but deep down Starscream was boiling with rage.

Ever since they first met he has wanted her, even when they were fighting each other and he was trying to kill her, he always got that sense of yearning for her. He wants to make her his and he was so close to doing it until that beast came along, but he's not gonna give up, he's gonna come up with a way to take her from him. "Predaking, Lord Megatron wishes to speak with you."

"About?"

"How should I know!? He just told me to come get you!"

Predaking glared at him before looking at Arcee, "Wait here, I'll be right back." Arcee nods and he walks off.

Arcee watches him walk off as she tries to ignore Starscream but she soon ends up looking at him as he circles her chuckling. "I'm sure you know that we've captured one of your comrades, Arcee. The one called Ratchet."

Arcee clenches her servos as she feels the urge to pummel this mech into the ground. She does know but she's not gonna let Starscream know that she knows. Predaking can feel her anger and discomfort so he stops walking and turns around, he growls when he sees Starscream getting so close to her. "Come along! I'm not leaving you alone with my mate!"

Starscream ignores him as he keeps talking to Arcee, "If you try to rescue him you'll be in so much trouble that even Predaking won't be able to bail you out."

"Get moving, Starscream, before I show you just how well I can kick your aft even without my weapons," Arcee says with a glare. If looks could kill Starscream would be in the well of AllSparks right now.

Before Starscream could make a response he felt a huge servo wrap around his helm as he was picked up and thrown. He slid across the floor a good few paces before stopping and he looked up to see an enraged Predacon heading towards him. Predaking picks him up by his wings as he digs his claws into the silver mech's metal, making Starscream cry out in pain. "If you ever get that close or make my mate feel uncomfortable again I will rip out your spark!!" He says with a snarl before throwing the Seeker through the open doors.

Starscream quickly scurries away in fear for his life and he goes to search for Knock Out so he can fix him. Predaking watches him scurry away as he feels a wave of love wash over him, he turns around to look at Arcee and she smiles sweetly at him. She's trying to calm him down before he goes to see Megatron and it's working, his anger is soon replaced with joy at feeling her love for him. He knew he would get her to love him one day and it's finally happened.

"We'll talk when I return," Predaking tells her and Arcee nods in agreement. Predaking turns to leave with the doors closing behind him and Arcee is left alone.

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Predaking arrives on the bridge to find Megatron looking at the monitors, "Lord Megatron, you wished to see me?"

Megatron turns around to face him, "Yes. Did you think that I wouldn't know that you took Arcee off the ship?"

"I didn't see anything wrong with doing so."

"You took her to her team! You practically gave her an invite to escape!"

"I was making my mate happy. She was missing them so I took her to see them. We Predacons always make it a top priority to see to it our mate is happy."

That didn't sit well with Megatron, if Predaking's top priority is to see to it that Arcee remains happy then that could involve treason down the road. Arcee is quickly gaining the power to turn the Predacon against him. "I can understand that you want to keep her happy, with her being your sparkmate and all, but you also must still obey me. Don't ever take her off this ship again," Megatron says with a sense of warning in his tone. "Now, I need you to do something to prove that your allegiance still resides with me."

"How do I do that, my lord?"

"We've recently captured an Autobot, I'm sure you heard."

Predaking growls, "I heard Starscream mention it to Arcee. Do you want me to kill him?"

"Not yet. This Autobot is more than a prisoner, he's the key to restoring our home planet." Predaking looks at him in astonishment. The Autobot can restore Cybertron? "But our captive's usefulness will soon come to an end," Megatron continues, "When that time comes I want you to destroy the Autobot in front of the femme."

Normally, Predaking would be delighted to destroy an Autobot, but now that he's sparkbonded to Arcee and he knows they mean so much to her, he has mixed emotions about it. In a way, he still wants to destroy the Autobots for killing his brethren but at the same time, he doesn't want to ruin the relationship he's built with Arcee. But he also needs to prove that his allegiance is still with Megatron, "I shall do with him what I failed to with the Prime."