The Beauty and the Predacon {ON HOLD}

Chapter 9

Arcee's spark raced as she watched the doors close concealing her away from the rest of the ship and leaving her alone with the Predacon. She's not sure how he intends to mate with her and she really doesn't want to find out, but seeing as she has no way to get away she'll have to go through whatever the mating process is. Maybe he can help her escape at some point.

Predaking looks at Arcee sympathetically as he kneels to get closer to her level, he can tell she's scared and nervous. He gently turns her to face him, being careful not to hurt her with his claws, "Arcee, I'm sure the thought of mating with me seems scary to you but I assure you I will not hurt you in any way. I will be a good mate and I will protect you and keep you safe."

Arcee just looks at him unsure of what to say. She has no doubts that he will keep her safe but she's perfectly capable of taking care of herself. When Predaking gets into a sitting position she allows him to pull her into his lap, she's afraid to find out what he will do to her if she refuses to cooperate. She sits in his lap with her legs on both sides of his hip still facing him as she waits for him to make his next move.

Predaking tilts his helm downwards as he starts kissing her on her neck, "Open up," he says near her audio receptor. It came out as a demand but was still soft.

Arcee gasped when she felt her spark move forward to get closer to him and her body started heating up. It's as though her spark wants to fuse with his. But how can that be when she doesn't love him? She follows his demand and opens up her spark chamber. Primus, why does it have to be spark bonding?

Predaking softly runs his claws over her body as he continues to kiss her on her neck. Once she opens up her spark chamber he opens up his own. Arcee could see his yellow spark shining as it tried to fuse with her spark but her spark was pulling back with uncertainty.

"Fuse!" Predaking growled softly before he bit her on the neck. Arcee's helm fell back as she gasped and closed her optics, her spark had suddenly lunged forward into his as though it was following his command. Arcee let out a moan as she moved her body closer to his, his spark was slightly cold but still felt good against her own spark.

Predaking moans into her neck as he wraps his arms around her to hold her firmly against him. At last, she belongs to him and only him. She's his mate and he's hers. He can tell there's no love for him in her spark but that will soon change, he will win her love. He's new to this mating thing so he doesn't know how a sparkbond works or what comes with it, he just recently researched it and read up on how to do it. He'll just have to find out while being sparkbonded to Arcee.

When the bonding is complete, Predaking removes his mouth from her neck and moves back, he gets his spark back into the chamber as he closes his chest and he helps Arcee do the same. Arcee is exhausted, between the bite to mark her and the sparkbonding her body is worn out. She lays her helm on his chest with optics still closed as she hopes and prays that they won't be fragging next.

Predaking can hear her thoughts in his processor, must be part of the sparkbonding, "Don't worry, we won't do that just yet. I'll wait on that until you're ready."

Arcee opens her optics and looks at him in surprise but then she remembers hearing about how bots can hear each other's thoughts when sparkbonded. She lays her helm back down on his chest, "Thank you for understanding." She's gonna have to be careful with her thoughts from now on.

Predaking doesn't respond, he just lays back with Arcee lying on top of him and they both drift off into recharge.

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When Arcee wakes up she finds herself in Med Bay. Why is she in Med Bay and what happened to Predaking? Wait. Who is Preda...? The Predacon, it seems he named himself Predaking. Arcee sits up and looks around the room, there's no sign of Predaking or Knock Out or any of the 'Cons. She begins to get off the berth when she suddenly starts feeling small pains all over her body. What is going on?

She can understand the pain in her neck since that's from the bite but she doesn't understand why she's feeling pain in other parts of her body. She finally comes to the conclusion that it's coming from Predaking, when you're sparkbonded not only can you read each other's thoughts but you can also feel each other's pain and feelings. Right now she feels anger and rage coming from Predaking, he must be fighting the Autobots. Whoever they are she hopes he doesn't kill them.

She flinches as more pain comes in, they're really small pains so they don't hurt too badly but she still hates feeling them. She hisses as she grabs her left arm, sharp pains suddenly hit her arm as if two swords pierced her armor. Two swords... The only one on the team that uses swords like that is Wheeljack, so Wheeljack is one of them Predaking is fighting. How many exactly are there? Before she felt as though she was being hit with a hammer, so maybe Optimus is there too.

Arcee looks over to the door when she hears it open and sees Shockwave walk into the room, "You're awake. How are you feeling?"

"In pain, all over the place. Apparently, Predaking is in a fight with my comrades and I can feel every hit they land on him."

"It seems I need to talk to him about sparkbonding and tell him how what he does affects you as well."

"Where did he go anyway?"

"The Autobots found my offsite laboratory and they attacked it, Predaking went there to stop them and save the other Predacons."

Arcee was relieved that her team did figure it out and they stopped Project Predacon but she had a feeling that it was some sort of setup, it was too easy for them to find it. The Decepticons are up to something and it involves her team and her new mate. She was interrupted from her thoughts when she winced from the new pain that shot throughout her body. "Scrap. I feel like a mountain fell on me."

Predaking! She tries calling out to her mate through the bond but she can't seem to get through. He seems to be too outraged and too focused on destroying the Autobots. Predaking, come in! Still no response. They're both new to the whole bonding thing so they both still need to figure it out.

"Megatron wishes to see you," Shockwave tells her. She gets off the berth and heads for the door with Shockwave right behind her. As they walked through the corridors, Arcee thought over the recent events that had happened to her. She was taken prisoner by Shockwave and then made to follow them around the ship like a dog, then she was made to stay with the Predacon so he could guard her and now she's mated with him. All she wants is to return to her team, her friends, and go back to the way things had been. She needs to escape somehow and get back to her team.

They finally reach the bridge where Megatron is along with Starscream, Soundwave, and Knock Out and they walk up to them. Megatron turns around to face her, "Arcee, glad to see you finally up and about. The mating must have really taken it out of you, you had been out of it for quite some time."

Arcee glares at him, "It exhausted me at first but I'm fine now." She really hates this mech, he had no right to give her away to be mated like that. She always thought that she would choose who she would mate with and she always thought that she would mate with a fellow Autobot, she never saw herself mating with a Decepticon. Especially not with a Predacon.

"Well, I'm glad the mating went well and you're still functioning," Megatron says trying to seem sincere but Arcee knew it was fake.

:: Lord Megatron, I need a Ground Bridge. :: Predaking's voice came in over the comlink.

"Soundwave..." Megatron didn't need to speak any further as Soundwave knew what to do. Soundwave opens up a Ground Bridge and a very enraged Predaking comes walking through, "What happened, Predaking?"

"The Autobots destroyed my Predacon brethren! I almost destroyed the two that did it but then I was attacked from behind by another one, when I looked I saw him grabbing the other two and flying off! I went after them but they went into a Ground Bridge before I could get to them!" Predaking explained as his anger rolled off him in waves. Arcee felt a bit frightened with all the anger she was feeling from him. He's so angry with the Autobots and she is still an Autobot. Will he turn his anger on her?