The Beauty and the Predacon {ON HOLD}

Chapter 10

Arcee's spark sank more and more as Predaking described the Autobots he was fighting against. She was right that one of them was Wheeljack but she didn't expect the other one to be Ultra Magnus. It's weird to think of Wheeljack and Magnus actually working together to take down their opponent but she's also happy to hear that they're getting along. With everything that's going on there doesn't need to be any unbalance in the team.

"Optimus Prime..." Megatron spoke interrupting Arcee from her thoughts, "The Autobot that attacked you and stopped you from killing the other two is Optimus Prime, he's their leader."

Predaking snarls, "Then I shall take his spark as well as the others. There will be no more Autobots left on that planet."

Those words terrified Arcee, she didn't want her teammates to be killed. She would rather sacrifice herself than let anything happen to them. But does his threat include her as well? Is he forgetting that she's an Autobot? Is she gonna be killed by the claws of her new sparkmate?

Predaking's optics widen as he looks over at her, now that he's calming down he can feel the fear emanating from her. She's afraid of him. She's afraid of the threat that he just made. He had been so furious with what the Autobots had done that he didn't even realize that his mate was in the room and hearing everything he was saying.

Megatron was having his own turmoil, as much as he would love to see Optimus torn to scrap by the Predacon, he doesn't believe he would be able to live with the thought of Optimus' spark being extinguished by another. Optimus' spark belongs to him, it's his to extinguish not Predaking's. Predaking is trying to show his superiority over him by any means. He needs to put an end to it.

After a long moment of silence, Megatron finally speaks up, "You can see to that at a later time, right now I want you to get checked and rest. If you will follow Knock Out to Med Bay he will check you over and give you some Energon."

"With all due respect, my lord. I would rather have my mate check me over," Predaking immediately speaks up, he feels more comfortable and at ease with Arcee checking him over and tending to any wounds he might have. If that Decepticon medic so much as makes a wrong move or touches him the wrong way the Decepticons will no longer have a medic.

"Very well, Arcee will tend to you and give you Energon."

Arcee expected Knock Out to put up some sort of protest but when she looked over at him she saw relief set in his face as though he was dreading having to look over Predaking then filled with great relief that he didn't have to. "Thank you, my lord." Predaking's voice brought her attention back to him. He walks over to her and she walks with him out of the room.

Arcee glances back to the others as they walk out, she still can't shake the feeling that they're up to something, especially given the sly smirks and smugness Starscream and Knock Out gave off while Predaking was talking about what happened. Did they set that up?

When they make it to Med Bay, Arcee tells Predaking to sit on the berth and he willingly does so, she takes the scanner and scans him to see if there are any unseen injuries even though she knows there aren't. "No internal damage or anything serious. Just a few scrapes and dents," she says as she puts away the scanner. She refuses to look him in the optics and he notices. She walks back over to him and looks over his armor but her optics don't get very far as Predaking gently places a claw under her chin to lift her helm and look him in the optics. When he looks into her optics he sees fear and sadness.

"Arcee, you must understand that I will never hurt you..."

Arcee gives him the meanest glare he ever saw from her as she pushes his claw away from her chin, "You will never hurt me!? You're already hurting me! You're hurting me by wanting to kill my teammates!"