WARNING: There is forceful spark bonding in this chapter. Don't like don't read.

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Steeljaw studies Strongarm as she continues to sit on his berth. She looks back at him as she waits for him to say or do something, but he just stands there looking at her. When he smirked at her she knew she had to speak up, "The floor was getting uncomfortable so I moved onto the berth. I also wanted to look out the window." Strongarm explained as she tried her best not to blush.

Steeljaw shrugged, "Whatever you say sweetspark." He then walked over to the shelf where the Energon cubes are as he ignores her cold glare, "I'm sure you could use some Energon since you let your injured teammates have most of the Energon that was given to you."

Strongarm's optics widened, "How do you know?"

Steeljaw grabbed one of the cubes and turned to look at her, "I know my Cadet, you would make sure they got the right amount of Energon they need before you consumed any yourself."

"Your Cadet!? I do not belong to you!"

"No, not right now you don't. Not officially anyway." Steeljaw says as he walks over to the table, he sets the Energon cube down and looks at Strongarm again.

Strongarm is stunned, she's not sure how to respond. How do you respond to such a remark? She's not even sure what he means by that. Is he gonna force her to mate with him?

"Strongarm."

Her insides churn and twist in disgust at hearing him say her name, she would rather he just call her Cadet. She watches him as he walks over to the berth and fear begins to consume her again. But Steeljaw stops a foot from the berth and puts out his servo, "Come drink some Energon Strongarm." He says it so calmly, she doesn't trust it. She looks into his optics and still sees the hunger she saw when he first entered, but there's also a struggle like he's fighting to keep himself calm. But rather it's from anger or something else she doesn't know.

There's also some mischief, as though he's got something planned in that evil processor of his. That right there makes her scoot back away from him as she shakes her helm. But what can she do? She's locked in the room with him, there's no escape.

Steeljaw lets out a low growl as he tries to keep himself calm, "Strongarm. Come drink." When she still refuses to move from the berth he growls viscously as he lowers his servo down to his side, "Don't test me, Cadet! Get off the berth and get over to the table!"

Strongarm flinches at his outburst and she gets off the berth, keeping her optics on him she moves over to the table and sits down. Once she's seated Steeljaw comes over and sits down across from her, "Was that so difficult?" He says with a hint of irritation still lingering in his voice as he pushes the Energon cube towards her. She looks at the Energon for a moment then hesitantly picks it up and starts drinking it, she felt slightly relieved that there was nothing in it.

Steeljaw brings out the canister they had brought onto the ship and placed it on the table, "What's in it?"

So that's why he's being this nice to her, it's a different tactic to get her to talk. She stops drinking the Energon and places it on the table, "I see now, you thought being nice and offering me Energon would get me to talk." She picks up the cube and throws it at him but he saw it coming and moved out of the way causing the cube to hit the wall and shatter, "It's not gonna work. I won't tell you anything." She says with a sneer.

It all happened so fast, it was all just a blur. She didn't know a Wolf-Con could move so fast. One moment she's sitting across from Steeljaw sneering at him the next she's up against the wall with Steeljaw inches from her face, his servo wrapped around her neck as he holds her against the wall inches above the ground. Her optics widen in fear as Steeljaw growls at her.

"I'm not trying any tactic to get you to talk, if I wanted that I would have tortured you like I did the others! I gave you Energon out of kindness because I want to be sure my future mate stays well and healthy!"

Strongarm's spark pulses faster as she looks at the Wolf-Con that could easily tear her apart or rip out her spark if he so wishes. He's already proven that she won't be able to get the upper hand over him as she did in the scrapyard now that he knows what she's capable of and no longer underestimates her. But she still tries to fight him and get him off her, she kicks at him but he grabs her legs and wraps them around his hip as he presses his body against hers to hold her up against the wall. She tries pushing him back but he grabs her wrists and pins them against the wall over her helm.

After a minute she stops struggling but she refuses to look at him. Why her? Why did she have to be the interest of this dangerous criminal? Why does the one mech that actually shows real interest in her have to be a 'Con criminal?

Steeljaw can't stop himself from sniffing at her neck and breathing in her scent, "You smell so good." He whispers but makes sure it's loud enough where she can hear him, "I haven't been able to get your smell out of my senses since that day we fought and you got so close to me. It's been driving me crazy."

"What is this Steeljaw?" Strongarm asks as she continues to look away from him, "Do you love me or is this something else?"

"I wouldn't really say I love you, but there is a desire for you that I feel that I've never felt for any femme before."

Strongarm stayed silent as she tried to process what's going on. She felt Steeljaw shift as he put both of her wrists into one servo while the other servo went down to her breastplate, she closed her optics when she felt him removing it as she knew what was gonna happen but there's no way to stop him. But when she felt him begin to open up her spark chamber her optics opened back up and she looked at him. This wasn't what she was thinking he was gonna do.

When Steeljaw opened up her spark chamber he was greeted with a bright blue spark pulsing really fast and he knew she was either scared or nervous, maybe even both. He looks up at Strongarm to see her looking at him with wide optics, oh how he could get lost in those beautiful blue optics. He chuckles at her confusion, "There are multiple ways to get information. I figured that with you I would get the information in a way that would please me and make you mine forever."

Strongarm begins struggling again as lubricant fills her optics, "Please don't."

Steeljaw keeps her still as he shushes her, "Don't worry, everything will be just fine." He says as he removes his armor and opens up his own spark chamber.

"No, it's not gonna be fine! I'll --" What Strongarm was gonna say got cut off by a scream leaving her mouth when Steeljaw pushed their bodies together and their sparks connected. She shivered at the cold feeling of his spark, the coldness piercing her own spark.

Steeljaw could feel the warmth of her spark seeping into his and it gave him the best feeling he ever had, he wanted more of it. He wants more of her. His cable hardened and pressed against his interface panel as it longed to be set free and put into her port. But he won't be doing that right now, that will have to wait. He focuses on the warmth of her spark and it doesn't take long for all her thoughts and memories to pile into his processor and play for him like a movie.

He sees her standing with her team planning out the attack on Decepticon Island and how they were gonna capture all of them. He heard them talking about the cryo gas and how they were gonna set it up as a stasis bomb to put all of them into stasis. So that's what's in the canister. Their sparks then separate and sink back into their own dwelling and Steeljaw pulls back. He closes her spark chamber and puts her breastplates back on then closes his own spark chamber and puts his armor back on.

I HATE YOU!! I HOPE YOU CAN FEEL JUST HOW MUCH HATRED I HAVE FOR YOU!! Strongarm yells through their bond.

I do. Steeljaw responds nonchalantly like he just doesn't care. There's then complete silence as he sets her feet onto the ground and opens the door. He grabs her by the arm and leads her back to the holding room where her team is. Lubricants fall from her optics as she walks with him, she just lost her freedom along with a part of herself.

Steeljaw keeps glancing over at her but doesn't say a word, he doesn't know what to say. When they turn the corner to go up one of the corridors he spots Thunderhoof and Overload chatting with a couple of the other Decepticons, "Thunderhoof, Overload walk with us."

The two look at Steeljaw as he walks past with Strongarm and falls in behind them, "Where are we off to Lord Steeljaw?" Overload asked.

"To the holding room to talk to the Autobots, I now know what's in the canister thanks to the Cadet here."

Strongarm glared at him but remained silent.

"So what's in it?" Thunderhoof asked as he looked over Strongarm to see if he could find any marking on her. When he didn't see any he became confused about how he got her to talk.

"You'll find out." Steeljaw says as they reach the room and he puts in the code to open the door. When the door opens Steeljaw walks Strongarm into the room and she's greeted with relieved and concerned looks from her teammates, "Thanks to your Cadet I know that you had cryo gas in that canister, you were planning on setting a stasis bomb to put us into stasis so you could transport us off this planet."

"That was the plan? What a complete fail." Overload said as him and Thunderhoof started laughing.

The Autobots all looked at Strongarm and she wished the floor would just swallow her up so she could escape their gaze. She feels like a traitor like she betrayed her team.

Not betrayal if it was forced from you.

Strongarm yanked her arm from Steeljaw as she moved away from him, Shut up! Just stay out of my processor!

"Strongarm. You told him?" She heard Bumblebee asking her and she turned to look at him as more lubricant fell from her optics. She couldn't speak, she just looked down at the ground and stayed silent.

Steeljaw decided to speak for her, "She didn't say anything. We spark bonded and I got the information from her memories."

"YOU WHAT!?" Bumblebee yells as his Energon begins to boil, "I SWEAR TO PRIMUS STEELJAW IF I COULD FIGHT RIGHT NOW --!"

"You wouldn't have been able to do anything! I would beat you down and turn you into scrap! You're in my Empire now which makes me the top Alpha!" Steeljaw says as he glares at Bumblebee. He can't wait until he can torture him again, but right now he has some stuff to see to, "I have some Emperor stuff to attend to. If you 'Bots behave I'll make your next tortures less excruciating." He laughs as he turns to head out the door but he stops just before he exits and looks over at Strongarm, "Enjoy your time with your team Cadet, the next time I take you out of here you won't be returning." With that said he walks out and the door closes and they hear the beeps to indicate the door is being locked.

Once Steeljaw is gone Strongarm falls to her knees as she cries. Windblade makes her way over to her and pulls her into a hug. The others then come over to give her comfort, "Was Steeljaw speaking the truth Strongarm?" Bumblebee asked as he sat next to her.

"Yes, we spark bonded. But I didn't want to, he forced me."

"We're not mad at you Strongarm, we know it wasn't your choice." Optimus says calmly.

"I'm scared. What's gonna happen to me now that I'm mated with a criminal?"

"I don't know." Bumblebee says as he hugs her. He actually does know but doesn't know how to tell her.