Author's Note: Way more Chardirakii POVs because I think it'll be a lot easier for me here as we draw to the end.
Another month passed, and as Lightpath had said, my stomach was steadily beginning to round and protrude. It took everything to keep it hidden from Optimus, and frankly it was a miracle he still hadn't noticed it.
One day, we got a comm from Ultra Magnus.
"Prime, we are under attack! We need emergency backup at these coordinates," Magnus shouted over loud explosions and gunfire.
"We're on our way," Optimus said, then pulled out his ground-bridge device and typed in the given coordinates,"Sorry to end the vacation, love."
I kissed his cheek,"It's fine. Besides, I missed kicking Decepticon tailpipe."
But part of me was worried. Could I fight and protect my unborn sparkling/s and hide my noticeably large belly from both friend or foe? Honestly I wouldn't care if my team-mates knew, but the Decepticons...there was no knowing what they might do to me if they discovered I was pregnant.
Optimus sensed my worry and drew me in for a quick kiss,"Don't be afraid. I'll be near you the whole time."
I kissed him back,"It's not myself I'm worrying about."
Optimus smiled, assuming I entirely meant I was worrying for him. That was only half-true. I was worried also for the little one/s in my stomach.
Optimus pressed a button and the ground-bridge opened up. He ran through first, his large gun drawn.
I hesitated for a second, then a slow smile crept over my face-plates as Lightpath's words resounded in my helm.
'You still have your goddess abilities...'
I summoned two kopesh and spun them in my servos, heading into the ground-bridge,"Hang in there, little guy. Carrier's got some tailpipe to kick."
I stepped through, and was shocked at the sight of all my team-mates chained up and kneeling on the flight pad of the Nemesis.
"Chardirakii, retreat! It's a trap!!" Optimus shouted from where a large group of Vehicons were tying him down.
Too late. As I turned to flee, the ground-bridge closed.
"I knew neither of you would be able to resist a plea for aid," Megatron smirked, running an optic over my frame,"That vacation certainly has done wonders for you, Chardirakii."
I narrowed my optics at him and tightened my grip on my kopesh.
"I won't go down easy," I hissed and shifted my right ped backwards a little and slightly bent my knees.
"I never knew you had hair," Megatron grinned,"It's lovely. Really accents your delicate features."
'Scrap! Forgot the helm-armor,' I thought, but calmly tossed my helm and held the warlord's gaze.
Megatron snapped his digits and a dozen Vehicons ran at me at once.
Arcee screamed, but I was ready for the attack.
A Vehicon jabbed at my back-plates with a prod, but I flipped backwards and stabbed my kopesh into his shoulder-plates, then continued over his helm and used my momentum to hurl him at another Vehicon, slicing my kopesh to the sides as I landed in a crouch.
Energon sprayed and the Vehicon collapsed, still alive, but armless. His limbs skidded off to the sides of the flight pad, leaving two small trails of glowing energon in their wake.
I stood and spun to block another Vehicon's prod, my weapon clanging loudly against the sparking metal.
I yanked upwards, exposing his side, then slashed with my other kopesh, slicing a deep gash in his side and nearly severing him in half.
I drew my kopesh away, then leapt over another Vehicon's helm as he charged, swinging my left kopesh downwards and decapitating him.
A helm rolled over the flight pad, bumping against the half-severed frame of the previous Vehicon.
Another ran at me, a much taller Vehicon than the others.
I threw both my kopesh in the air, then ran and skidded on my knees, bending over backwards so my helm just barely brushed the ground, sliding underneath and behind the Vehicon.
I straightened and caught my kopesh, then whirled up on one knee and dug my kopesh into his back-plates. The sound of tearing metal was music to my audios.
I ripped my kopesh away and pieces of armor went flying away with them, along with cabling and energon.
The Vehicon screamed and collapsed in absolute pain.
I would have finished him off, but two more were charging at me with long prods, electricity snapping and crackling at their ends.
I jumped and landed on one, snapping it with my ped, then hooked my kopesh around the other one and yanked the Vehicon closer to me.
I unhooked my right kopesh and spun my right, then with a yell stabbed both Vehicons in the stomach region, my blades easily penetrating their armor.
I twisted my wrists, drawing twin screams from both Decepticons, then yanked my kopesh out, making an 'X' over my chest-plate.
Decepticon entrails splattered on the ground along with spraying energon and both Vehicons collapsed, clutching their fatal wounds and groaning.
I spun to face Megatron and pointed my kopesh, dripping with energon, directly at him.
"Let my family go," I ordered,"And your end will be swift."
Megatron looked at the Decepticons who had attacked me. They were either dead, or writhing on the ground in pain. The ground around my peds was slick with spilt energon and I had quite a bit of it splattered over my frame as well, the glowing blue contrasting with my black and magenta armor. My biolights glowed brightly.
Megatron looked at me, then snarled, baring his sharpened denta.
"You are more trouble than you are worth, femme," he growled, then turned to a nearby console, pressing some buttons,"I should have killed you the second you set ped on this wretched planet. A fool's mistake...one I shall soon amend."
I roared and ran at the warlord, only to have the ground open up beneath me.
For a second I was suspended in midair, then suddenly I was falling.
I landed hard on my side, the impact knocking the breath from my respiratory system for a moment or two, and my kopesh went skidding from my servos.
With a groan I slowly got into a sitting position, then shook my helm and opened my optics.
'What in the seven scraps of Unicron?' was my first thought.
