Transformers:The Bonded

Chapter One:The Lonely

Four weeks earlier...Before the discovery of Sentinel Prime

"Why do you have to be the one to go back to Cybertron?" Ironhide rumbled deeply upset as the Dusky-Blue femme thrashed about the hangar trying to find her Sniper Rifle.To be honest he was driving her insane with the questions and she was tired of saying the same thing over and over again.
 "Seriously Ironhide I have no idea why! They asked for the fembots and that includes me sadly,WHERE THE FRAG IS MY SNIPER?!" Chromia roared through her vocalizer and turned around on her peds hissing in anger filled sorrow.Knowing it was better to let her go on her way,Ironhide vented a sigh and picked her up."Chromia I just want to know when I will see you again that's all.This whole leaving Earth thing has me baffled." He said in a soothing tone,reaching out through their bond filling her with the burning fire that he possesed.Chromia shuddered her frame then snapped back to reality shoving again his chest chassis.

"Dammit Ironhide I have no time for interfacing right now! Elita will have my aft if i'm la-"
Ironhide pressed his lips to hers stopping her from talking,passionately revving his engine in a low purr."Iro- Ironhi-Hide!" Chromia half laughed as she kissed him back and wrapped her arms around his neck enjoying the warmth spreading through her spark from his bond."I'm not letting you go 'Mia." He growled playfully and pinned her down on the berth.Now Chromia saw her Sniper rifle....It was clasped on his back! How did she miss that? "I don't strap you down when Prime needs you!" She retorted with a snarky grin across her faceplates."Oh don't give me that slag femme,You held me for ransom in the Med Bay that mission here to Earth!" He said in his defense,shifting his weight so not to crush her smaller frame.Chromia gave another grin staring in his optics.Primus he was so damn handsome and everything she dreamed of.She didn't care that all the other bots wondered what she saw in him.It wasn't a question she avoided,in fact she enjoyed the mumbles in the Rec Room about her and Ironhide.
"Okay so I did that one time,now let me up!" She gasped out as he trailed his fingers along the seams of her armor grinning.Blast him to pit for this! "I'm not letting you go,my femme." Ironhide whispered and lowered himself over top of her until the knock made him growl. "Chromia we need to load the Xanthium and i'm not doing it alone!" Came Elitas' reply.
 "If we stay quiet she will go away." Ironhide chuckled but when the knocking persued,he snarled whirling his cannons raising off Chromia as she sprang to her feet and over to the blast doors.Once it was opened Chromia narrowed her optics into blue slits."I heard you the first time..." Came a snarling voice.Elita frowned and tried to look around the tall blue femme."Who were you talking to?" She asked. "Primus!" Chromia growled and slammed the doors turning around to Ironhide again. Perched on the large berth he narrowed his optics and folded his arms with a harumph in irritation."So i'm....Primus?" He questioned in an amused tone.
"Hehe no.You're a bigass eclipse that's in my way right now!" She snapped again placing her weapons into her compartments."Ouch that hurt badly.I'm going to offline." He mused and fell back on the bearth."I need my slagging rifle Ironhide! I'm not playing this game with you." Chromia bellowed  stomping up to him and trying to move him.He was extremly heavy causing her vents to hitch roughly."Gotcha!" Ironhide had yelled out before springing up and holding her against his chest chassis not letting go.She couldn't understand why Ironhide was acting this way.So playful,so unlike Ironhide."Primus 'Hide i'mma blast your interface clean off if you don't let me up now!" The now riled femme threatened."I don't want to let you go okay?!" Came the serious yell from him."Forgive me for loving you." He added and roughly shoved her off him.She staggered back and realized her fighting back from his affection really did hurt him.His spark was seething from anger and he sent it to her on purpose."Ironhide i'm sorry okay...I-I didn't.."She stopped talking as she kissed him passionately only for him to move his helm away."Save it 'Mia...." He growled and was shoved back on the berth with a clang."Ironhide you know I love you more than I do myself! I didn't know you were so attached after all these vorns." Ironhide rolled his optics and sent a burst of love through their bond causing her to flinch."I will never stop loving you Chromia...I just don't want to say goodbye again.I nearly lost you once..N-Not again." He stammered over his words for once.Chromia was his only weakness and he showed it when they were alone or she was hurt.His tough personality wasn't a front but when he was around Chromia he could be himself without ruining his image.Chromia was the same way,not showing her emotions in public.Caressing his cheekplate he shuddered his optics and gave into her touch."You won't lose me Okay? I promise I will come back and you better still be here when I do." She said and kissed him again,Ironhide growling into the kiss then opened his optics staring into hers."I will never leave you for anything,not even death can keep me away.I promise you I will be here." He said softly and nuzzled her getting up.Chromia didn't cry but as of now she wanted to..Oh she didn't want to leave him! Not without feeling him bonded with her again.Launching herself off the berth,she crashed into him taking him down."What the pit Chromia?!" He asked alarmed and not liking that look in her optics."I want you one last time before I go." She admitted. A grin flashed from Ironhide but was soon wiped clean from the sharp arousal that she sent through the bond."Primus Chromia what did I do to put you in this mood?" He teased and a screeching down his armor made him groan.
 "Can you focus on what you're not doing right now?!" Chromia snarled and opened her chest chassis.This wasn't a rough and toughly joining as they had in the past.This was going to be slow and passionate,each spark in rhythm with the other Chromia didn't fight back when Ironhide clawed at her neck wiring roughly.She felt him so close and so real to her and likewise for him as well.She gasped and he growled weakly.Fingers softly rubbing wires and armor,her moans sounding like angels singing.The flashing blue light from both sparks sent both into an overload of pleasure leaving them both satisfied with each other but not with the realzation once they cooled down their systems.Ironhide helped Chromia to her peds and frowned sadly down at her."I'll be fine I promise." She said smiling at him and kissed him again.
Chromia climbed aboard the Ship and waved back at out at him but so longingly wanting to stay.Easing her mind,Ironhide sent a calming wave through their bond as the hatch closed blocking him from her view.She didn't know that would be the last time she saw him.

One year later...After the battle in Chicago.

You promised me....That when I got back you would be here.But where are you now?
 Ever since Chromia found out Ironhide had been Killed Sentinel,she hadn't been the same since.She stayed oddly calm and quiet around the other 'Bots but no one knew that when Chromia went in her Quarters,the spazzing began.Trashing the room and flipping over the berth,she was nothing but an empty shell.Her life and everything she thrived on was no gone to pit.She danced around pretending it was Ironhide she held in her arms when it was nothing but his rifle. She sang herself a quiet song whispering his name throughout.Her sharp optics searching for something that wasn't there anymore causing her to mentally snap.Crashing to her knees,her blue frame heaving from the sobs that shook her.Elita and the others were worried about her condition.Each day she fiddled with the ring that Ironhide gave her that was encased with a fragment of his spark.
"I still love you Hide....I always will." Was the mumbles she gave with a crazed smile on her face then it would fade as the tears poured down.Chromia would growl,snarl and spaz out to keep from crying but she was no longer strong anymore.Her peds pained her with each step she took making her sink back to the floor hugging his Iron Rifle.
"Chromia are you okay in there?" Moonracer asked softly and heard the humming to the Cybertronian prayer. Easing away from the door she left gasping sobs herself.Sometimes Chromia was angry from him lying and breaking his promise to her.Cursing him out through a broken bond  and sobbing because she no longer felt him with her."I can't do this Ironhide....Please come back to me! You fall and I will too! I-I need you so much." She panted out later that night from her normal rants.Everywhere she looked she saw him,smelled his essence and could feel his warmth spread through her.There were times she heard his cannons whirl in the Shooting range and she would race down the hall screaming his name with hopeful optics only to crash to her knees where he once stood.The world was so very cold now,pure agony filled her and she staggered to the room again.As she was going,Elita placed her servo on her shoulder plating stopping her."Ratchet said he's nearly done with fixing his chassis but something else is missing." Chromia whirled and clicked her optics as she looked around."How long will it take?" Chromia finally asked. "10 or 12 more Earth years,maybe sooner." She said sadly and noticed Chromia look faint."T-That long? Can't Ratchet use the matrix and bring him back? Prime? Anyone?" Chromia pressed sadly. Elita shook her helm."Ratchet said he's missing a piece and finding him another spark isn't a fast task." The commander said to her sister.Chromia gave a weak smile shrugging her shoulders."Guess It's worth the wait huh? N-No problem...." Heading back into her room and locking the door,Chromia covered her moth holding back a straining scream in her vocalizer.Her systems worked frantically to cool her down but defeated the purpose.

Tell me.....I know you can here me Ironhide.I feel so alone now without you....Like i'm so close to doing something reckless just to see your face again.I'm trying to remain strong like you have always told me too.But it's so hard and where ever you are right now I love you so much.I will never stop.

"You okay Chromia? You look like you saw a ghost or something." Arcee asked snapping Chromia's attention to the pink fembot.That was a stupid question to ask her but Arcee didn't know any better,thinking she was helping her mentor."Yeah yeah i'm fine..." The blue femme lied sipping the energon from the cube and staring in space.There was nothing to pulse more strength into her like before now."So ladies,how is that assignment coming along?" Firestar asked  smirking at the femmes in the room.Moonracer chuckled and held up her rifle."I'm nearly done with my activity! You should see my presentation!" She chided then looked at the pink Arcee."How about yours?" Arcee laughed and tapped her leg armor."Well my medical skills are honestly better than I thought they would be." Firestar then looked over at Chromia who didn't even pay attention to them calling her name until a datapad sent her whirling around on Firestar snarling."Will you leave me the pit alone you rusting scrap heaps?!" She shot out and threw the pad at Arcee making her fall off the berth."HNG!" And then there was a thud."Chill out Chromia we just wanted to see how your project was turning out." Moonracer said helping Arcee back to her peds and on the berth again.
 "Well i'm not doing it this year.I just...It won't seem right." Chromia spat and brought her knees to her chest,wrapping her arms around her legs."Well why not?" Elita who had been silent the entire time asked."BECAUSE IT JUST WON'T!!!" She snapped gripping her armor then lashed her leg out getting up.She had to get out of there before she snapped on her sisters that she loved.Her anger and pain wasn't needed to be taken out on them."I'm going out for a while,don't wait up." She added and slammed the door knocking guns off the shelf.