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Times Are Changing	By : LuciferDragon Category: S through Z > Transformers (Movie Only) > Transformers (Movie Only) Views: 4016 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: The only characters I own are Icestriker, Jadefire, and Katrina. Everything else belongs to the Transformers movie-verse. I make no money off this fic. It's all in good fun.

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Every living being gathered to listen to Arcee’s report. Before she began, Jadefire and Ratchet got Elita-One, Chromia, and the twins either stabilized, or gave them the temporary repairs needed. They left the still-unconscious females to repair themselves, and seated themselves where they could. Jadefire leaned against a wall, crossing her arms and looking down at the floor. She could feel his tearing spark through their still-strong link, but refused to look at him.
To say Arcee looked different was an understatement. She was in a whole new body, one that looked nothing like her old self. Her sisters also had the same change, just different colors.
“Arcee, what on Cybertron happened?” Optimus asked once they were all in the main room of the base.
“Starscream attempted to make another Allspark. An exact replica. He pulled it off, giving it power in the forms of the lives of many of the Autobots he had enslaved, as well as a few of his Decepticons that must have tried to defy him. Elita was one of them. Chromia fell not long after by the hands of Thundercracker, and he almost got me. He must have taken the twins while I was in stasis lock. By the time I came back online, I was like this.” She indicated her new body. “I looked down and saw the remains of my old self. Flatline was ordered to use my sisters and I as an experiment, force-made Decepticons from Autobot bodies. They tried to do the same with the twins, but only managed to mess up their memories. Us however… He used my spark to bring them back to life. And, in that, we are each other. And I am them.”
Optimus narrowed his optics. “What do you mean?”
She put a hand to her chest, where her spark lay under her armor. “I feel their pain. My spark was split, reigniting theirs. So, with that, I feel what they feel.” She looked to Ratchet. “When you were hooking them up to the monitors, I felt the needles piercing their cables. I can control them, as well as also let them be themselves.” She waved a hand in the air. “I can’t simplify it any more than that.”
Jadefire looked down the hallway, wanting nothing more than to escape. But, under orders, she had to remain there to hear Arcee’s report. She was startled as a presence began to share her wall. “Seems we’re both second choices, huh?”
She looked out of the corner of her optics, seeing Sideswipe not exactly looking at her. “Guess so. Knew it was going to happen. Fooled myself into believing things happened for a reason.” She snorted. “What about you?”
He scoffed. “I’m never good enough. Been that way since Sunstreaker and I were created. He was always better at everything, and always had all the praise. I was second best, if that. He gave the orders.” He sneered. “Not much changes.”
“I’m beginning to see that.” She sighed and rubbed at her arms, not listening to Arcee recounting her tale anymore. “At least it was… interesting.” She saw him shift uncomfortably. “Something wrong?”
“Wish you would’ve given me a chance. Never would’ve hurt you like this.”
“It was something I had to do, Sides. When you love someone for as long as you can remember, they’re the ones you usually chose when given the chance.” She shrugged. “But that run is over.” Jadefire felt Ironhide’s gaze on her, and could feel his jealousy seeping into the link at her talking to Sideswipe. At this point, she didn’t care. She already knew the truth months ago.
“Can’t say it isn’t hurting you.”
“It is. But, it’s a pain I’ve been hiding behind for millions of years. Nothing different. At least now I can move on. Had my fun.” She saw everyone dispersing, knowing Arcee had finished her recount of the events. “Still up for it?”
“I don’t know, Jadefire. I’m sick of being second best.”
“Oh please. I’ve seen the glare of daggers you’ve been giving him the past few months. You can’t fool me.”
“I didn’t say I don’t want you. I just said I’m sick of being second in line.”
The black mech approached them, giving a menacing glare to Sideswipe. “May I cut in?”
Sideswipe scoffed. “So you can do more damage?”
“Dammit, boy, if you don’t leave in the next minute—“
“Ironhide!” Jadefire yelled. “Leave him be. He doesn’t have to be pushed aside.”
The weapons master looked at her with a small bit of shock.
Sideswipe glanced at her. “We’ll talk about it later.”
She nodded, watching him roll away down their corridor.
“I-I see you’ve moved on.”
She narrowed her optics at him. “I don’t have any other choice, now do I? What do you even want? Shouldn’t you be by Chromia’s side?”
“I should. But I don’t want to be. Once she passed on, that gave me validation to move on. She can’t be mad at me no matter what I choose.”
She scoffed. “Yeah, sure. You don’t have to lie to make me feel better, or that I even stand a chance.”
“What do you think she has that you don’t?”
“I don’t know! All right? I just don’t know!” She tried walking away, only to have him stop her with a hand on her arm. “Leave me alone, Ironhide.”
“We need to talk about this, Sweetheart.”
She looked back at him, narrowing her optics. “Don’t you even dare call me that if you don’t mean it anymore.”
“I do. That’s why we need to talk. Please.”
Jadefire knew that in his whole life, he rarely had pleaded for anything. “Fine. Your room. Just talking.”
He looked to his side as she left for his room, seeing Optimus catch his gaze. The old leader just gave him a smile and a nod before turning back to Arcee.

Ironhide closed the door behind him, seeing her leaning up against the wall again, instead of waiting in his berth as she had done quite a few times over the past few months, making him wish times could still be that simple. “This won’t change anything.”
She laughed scornfully. “Sure it won’t.”
“It won’t.” He sat on his berth and motioned for her to sit next to him. She rolled her optics, but did as he asked, pushing off the wall and sitting a good six inches away from him. It hurt, but he didn’t let it show. “I know you don’t believe me.”
“Oh, what could have ever given that away?”
“Can you let me explain?”
“Rather you didn’t, but go ahead.”
“All right, then how about you tell me why you can’t believe me?”
“Why can’t I? Ironhide, you’ve been bound to this femme for millions of years. You’ve had sparklings together! You fought together, both with Megatron, and against him with the Autobots! You have such a fragging extensive history, and what do I have with you? Years of bashful hiding. Of never speaking my mind. Of running off to the academy. Of never getting a chance to fight on Cybertron with you. Never… never doing anything she did! All I have now is a few months of great memories, compared to her millions of years.”
He fell quiet.
“Now do you see what I can’t believe you? Just months ago, you would have chosen her if she came back. Then you found out she had passed on. Now she’s back online, so what’s to change you wanting her? You’ve said it so many times, I’m young, I have better choices.”
“I also said no other mech would ever touch you but me.”
“Don’t lie to me!”
“I’m not lying!” He grew fed up with her fighting and so pinned her down to the berth, using his body as a restraint. “Listen to me! All you said was true about our history. I did have a long run with her, but that has run its course. I’ll always love her, I can’t stop that, but I’m not in love with her. Not anymore. You’re different from her. You have her fighting spirit, and can keep up with me in more ways than one, but there’s more there that she began to lack due to the war. Then we separated, with us leaving on the Ark. Went hundreds of years without her even bothering to answer my calls, even though I knew she could hear them. Somehow, I knew she was alive, so I knew she just wasn’t answering me. That’s why I was able to move on. I already had been for centuries.”
“Which means you could grow tired of me as well.”
“That’s not what I’m getting at, so let me finish. You all came out of nowhere, and I started to see the signs you were giving off, that I had always read as something else while you were growing up. And your brother opened that big mouth of his and I could’ve slapped myself for being so blind.”
“Yeah, but you didn’t know what I wanted for sure at first, and we weren’t even talking about it.”
“It wasn’t the original plans, but remember, I’m a mech, we all think about dirty things.” He laughed at her false growl of offense. “It was on my mind, but it wouldn’t have mattered if it didn’t happen, as we saw the first night on the overlook.”
“Ah, so you did want it the whole time!”
He chuckled. “Shut up. I have a module, so don’t have to defend myself.” He relaxed his grip on her arms, letting her move again. “So what do you have to say to argue with me now?”
Instead of answering, she pulled his face to hers, effectively making him lose his train of thought.
He pulled back a bit. “So I take it you’re not mad at me anymore?”
“I’m furious, don’t let this fool you.” She pulled him back down, getting a chuckle out of him.
They didn’t hear the door open until they were too far into their actions. “So I see you handle yourself well while I’m away.”
Their sparks clenched as he looked at the doorway, seeing a familiar blue femme. “Uh, nice seeing you again, Chromia.”
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