The Beauty and the Predacon {ON HOLD}

Chapter 4

Arcee raised her helm to look at the door when it opened and a Vehicon came walking through with two big Energon cubes. He places the cubes before her, "These are for you. They should hold you over for a good while." The Vehicon turned and walked through the door, back into the ship.

Arcee looked at the cubes as she played over the last thing he said about them holding her over. Truth be told just one of them can hold her over for a while, she doesn't need two. She looks over at the Predacon and wonders when it last had any Energon. She's not sure why she's so concerned over a creature that has intentions to kill her, probably because she just witnessed Starscream treating it so rudely and being so brutal with it, she's not sure.

Either way, she knows she doesn't need two big cubes of Energon and she doesn't know what else to do with the other cube. She notices that it's still asleep, or appears to be, so she quietly gets up and takes one of the cubes. She moves as quietly as possible over to the sleeping Predacon and places the cube in front of it.

Just as she places it on the ground the Predacon opens its optics. It lets out a ferocious growl and Arcee falls to her knees and positions herself to show it she means no harm. She lets go of the cube and puts her hands up, "I mean you no harm, I just wanted to give you some Energon." She carefully backs away while keeping her optics on the beast in front of her. She's not sure why she's so concerned for it but she does know for certain that if she is to survive this ordeal she must get on the Predacon's good side and earn its trust.

The Predacon looks at the cube of Energon she had just placed in front of it and sniffs it. It then looks back up at the femme and growls at her again. "They just gave me the Energon cubes, gave me two of them. All I need is one so I thought I'd give the other one to you in case you haven't had any and needed some."

The Predacon's growls subsided to low rumbles as it looked down at the cube again. It doesn't trust this femme, but her actions of kindness...

Something starts brewing inside the beast as it thinks of the kindness this femme has been showing it, a foreign instinct it's never felt before and not used to. It glances up at her again before it dips its head down to take a drink from the cube, just one little drink to test it out. Once it realized she didn't do anything to it it drank up the Energon until there was nothing left.

It looks back up to the femme and gives a low growl of appreciation and gratitude just before the door opens and Shockwave walks out. The one optic mech observed the Predacon before turning to face Arcee who just stood up, "You're still intact I see."

Arcee folds her arms as she glares at the mech, "Yes, I am. Did you think I would be in pieces?"

"I thought you would at least be missing a limb or two."

"Well, sorry to disappoint you."

Shockwave just ignores her remark as he looks at the Predacon again. He notices the empty Energon cube and starts putting things together, "You gave him Energon I see."

"Him?" Arcee raises an optic ridge as confusion sets in, "That thing can be different genders?"

"Predacons can be male or female just like ordinary Cybertronians can."

"And this one is a male?"

"Yes."

Arcee looks at the Predacon apologetically, she had been calling him an it and a beast and all other things and not once considered that maybe 'it' could be a him or a she. But being a male would make sense with the size, males are usually a lot bigger than females.

"Did you give him the Energon?"

Arcee looks back at Shockwave as she tries to gather herself from the revelation, "Yes. I was given two cubes to last me a good while but my small frame can last a while on just one. So I gave it to him, I thought it - he - might need it."