Angel From A Dream

Chapter 16

Steeljaw was awakened by a loud crash that came from outside his room, he could hear his carrier and a mech exchanging words but the mech wasn't his sire. Steeljaw climbed out of his berth and walked over to the door, when he opened it he saw his carrier yelling at two mechs to get out. The two mechs had broken into their place in search of his sire.

His sire was one of the toughest and most calculated criminals on Cybertron, he was known throughout the planet and he was on the top of the police's most-wanted list causing cops all over Cybertron to be looking for him. But they weren't the only ones, he also had his rivals. Other criminals wanted to take him out to make themselves popular, criminals that had bad run-ins with him are putting out bounties on his helm.

That's the purpose for this break-in tonight, two mechs looking to kill him and become popular or claim a reward. Steeljaw watched from behind the corner of a wall as his carrier flashed out her claws and bared her fangs. She's not a hardened criminal like her mate but she has no problems ripping a mech into small scraps to protect her cub. Even though she never became a criminal she grew up in a family full of criminals in a part of the planet that was overrun with them, she had to learn to fight and kill to survive.

She viciously glared at the intruders with her fangs bared to them, "I won't say it again! LEAVE!!" She growled ferociously but the two mechs just laughed. Steeljaw didn't know why they weren't running away, they're both just regular mechs with no claws or fangs of their own. They must be very confident to think they can take her on.

One of the mechs launched at her and she immediately brought up her claws to slash at him, she struck him hard on his helm leaving lacerations, just missing his processor by a few inches. He goes flying into a wall before falling to the floor, his left optic flickered as it tried to activate but nothing could be activated on that side of his helm.

The other mech grabbed her and threw her down onto the floor as he swiftly unsheathed his blade and started bringing it down to pierce her in her spark chamber. But when the blade was two inches from her spark chamber he was suddenly thrown off her and was slammed onto the floor. He looks up to catch a glimpse of an enraged Wolf-Con - the Wolf-Con that he was there to kill - before his spark was ripped out and he offlined.

Steeljaw was not phased in the slightest by the killing he just witnessed, he'd seen his sire kill before. He was actually about to run out to attack the mech himself to save his carrier, but just as he was getting ready to run out he heard an engine outside then a transformation followed by the front door opening and closing and he saw his sire running in faster than he ever saw him run. Steeljaw watched his sire attack the mech with such power and ferocity it made him admire his sire even more than he did already and want to be just like him.

Steeljaw continued to watch as his sire walked over to the other mech and looked at him. He then looked over to his mate who was slowly getting up off the floor while watching him as though any quick movement would make him pounce on her. He snarls as he looks back to the mech on the floor in front of him, in one swift movement he detaches the mech's helm from his body and then rips his spark out to be double sure he's offline.

Still snarling, the Wolf-Con turns to look at his mate who is now on her pedes and looking at him in fear, despite how brave and tough she is in the face of danger and toward other mechs she still fears her mate when he's angry. She disobeyed him and he's now furious. She backs up as he moves towards her but he moves too fast and he's right up on her in a matter of seconds.

Before she can think of what to do he grabs her by the throat and slams her against the wall behind her as he snarls at her, "I told you to hide!! I didn't tell you to fight them!!"

"I needed to get Steeljaw, I wasn't gonna just hide and let them hurt him."

"I told you I was on my way! I would have kept them from him, besides he needs to know how to fend for himself! You can't always protect him!"

She winces as his claws dig into her neck, "I'm sorry. Please stop, you're hurting me."

After seeing her wince and hearing her plea he loosens his hold as he bends his helm down to bury his face into her neck. "I thought I was gonna lose you," he says in a calmer tone as he rubs her neck, "I don't want to lose you."

She starts calming down from her fear and she wraps her arms around him, "I know. You won't lose me."

Steeljaw smiles at the sight, if he ever finds his femme that's to be his mate he wants things to be just like that. Just like his parents.

Steeljaw wakes to the movement of Strongarm trying to get out of his hold, "Good you're awake. Now can you please let go of me?"

Steeljaw chuckles, "Why? I like holding you."

"Well, I don't like you holding me this close to your body. Primus, you're gonna make my heat kick in again if your spike keeps pressing against me. Besides, I need to wash again."

Steeljaw groans, "You have a point." With great reluctance he releases her and she gets back into the stream to wash up.

"Don't get in with me this time!" She says as she turns to glare at him.

He chuckles again as he sits up, "Don't worry, sweetspark, I won't. I can enjoy the view from right here," he finishes with a smirk.

She rolls her optics and turns away from him as a blush appears on her face. Steeljaw kept smirking as he watched her wash and he thought about his dream. For once it wasn't of his cadet, it was of a memory from when he was just a cub and his parents were still around. His sire was so protective of his mate that he would handle her with a firm claw to be sure he didn't lose her. It's where he learned his firmness from. He's found his mate and he's not letting her go.

Strongarm turns to look at him again, "Don't you have anything better to do than sit there and watch me wash!?"

Steeljaw places his elbow on his knee joint and puts his chin in his servo as he looks at her, not even caring to conceal the erection that is building from watching her, "Nope!"

Strongarm just turns back to her washing and tries to ignore him, "Primus, what am I gonna do with this mech?"