Title: Crash Into You
Author: Asher119
Rating: Starts G, turns to M
Characters/Pairings: Jazz/Prowl, Ratchet/Sunstreaker, Seekers, Ultra Magnus/Hot Rod, Hound/Mirage. Ensemble.
Summary: Prowl is unwittingly caught up in a new Decepticon plot, this one mysteriously going back to the very beginnings of Cybertronian history, and unleashing a dangerous new threat.
Series: G1
Categories: Action/Adventure, Romance, Drama
Notes: I played fast and loose with some minor bad guys for my plot. Apologies to the purists who may be offended by such. This was inspired by a stroll I took through the Bunny Farm. A cute, helpless little bunny viciously attacked me, and I later discovered it to be rabid. Rabid! The only way to cure myself was to create this…

(Note: Now that this is finished, I will reveal the bunny that created this monster... "That asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? Yeah, that was a Transformer." Annnd.... Go! ;) Thank you Kittara Jaganshi for the Bunny.

OC’s seeming at the beginning are for plot purposes only. This is a solidly Jazz/Prowl and ensemble story!!

Feedback appreciated.

Chapter One: It was, Jazz thought much, much later, a completely inauspicious start to the end of his world.

Chapter Two: Prowl’s optic widened, and his grip on Starscream’s cockpit tightened fearfully. Starscream held his gaze, charged his null ray and smiled. Then he fired.

Chapter Three: He was cut off, Jazz’s voice still maddeningly calm. “No, I wan’ t’ hear it from Sides.” He walked over to the seated mech, alone at one of the tables near the back wall. “He’s dieing,” Jazz said, vocalizer finally choking, catching on the word. “He took a shot o’ somethin’ to the chest. Screamer was right on top o’ him. We don’ leave ‘bots alone, not in battle, and ya did. And now, he’s-” Jazz’s vocalizer shorted out.

Chapter Four: Jazz hadn’t been able to get a full night of recharge since the attack on Prowl. He woke halfway through every cycle, panting and clutching at his berth in sheer terror.

Chapter Five: Prowl whimpered, the sound sending terrified shocks of lancing cold pain straight to pierce Jazz’s spark. “Don’t leave me, Jazz,” Prowl whispered. “Please don’t leave me.”

Chapter Six: “How dare you!” Ratchet hollered again, the force of his anger rolling over Jazz, shout loud enough to send pain shooting through his audials and straight to his processor. “I ordered you not to go down there, Jazz!”

Chapter Seven: “I am. I’m back, Jazz.” Prowl breathed in, uncharacteristically nervous. “Thanks to Starscream.”

Chapter Eight: “You can feel him inside of you. He’s merging with your own spark. I know. I had him too.” Starscream leaned back, holding Prowl’s optics as he began stalking around the tactician. “His thoughts, his memories… they will all be your own.” Starscream lightly, delicately, traced the edge of the curved doorwing with his finger. “Feel his power.” 

Chapter Nine: It was the cruelest thing Prowl had ever done, to tell Jazz he loved him. Jazz wished he’d take it back, take it all back.

Chapter Ten: Sunstreaker dropped his hand from the grip he had on Ratchet’s own as he offlined his optics. It hurt, too much, when they didn’t love you back.

Chapter Eleven: Ratchet glared at Starscream. “65 million years of evolution has occurred! Do you have any idea what that entails? Do you have any idea how they’ve changed? How they’ve evolved? You want to fight ghosts, shadows of the past! Even we, back then, were only simply mechanical forms. We had no transformation capability. We had no higher functions. We’ve evolved as well. ” Ratchet sighed, twisting his helm to glare back at Prowl and Jazz, now standing side by side. “65 million years changes everything.”

Chapter Twelve: Prowl sighed and turned his faceplates into Jazz’s hand, nuzzling against his touch. “I’m so sorry…” he whispered again, kissing Jazz’s palm as he reached up with his free hand to cover Jazz’s with his own. “I’m sorry I never told you how I felt. We could have had so much time together…”

Chapter Thirteen: “You’re not a slagging pilot, Jazz!” Ratchet continued. “You could have killed us all! You’ve probably killed Sunstreaker!” Ratchet shakily inhaled, rage finally unleashing inside himself as he pumped harder at Sunstreaker’s engines, feeling the golden twin’s spark flutter without rhythm, without pattern, inside his chest.

Chapter Fourteen: “I needed wingmates. I needed a team. You both needed a leader. It’s not my fault I can’t give you what you want.” Starscream turned his helm to Thundercracker, optics dull and lifeless as they onlined. “I have nothing to give you.”

Chapter Fifteen: Sunstreaker grunted, straining, pressing down harder as the mech’s violent fits stilled, his wild thrashing weakening. He lowered his helm, faceplates hidden near the mech’s neck collum. “Shhhh…. Shhhh…” he whispered, vocalizer hissing more than vocalizing speech against the mech’s audial, breathy gasps escaping intermittently as he kept his vice-like grip, his pressure hold, firmly on the mech.

Chapter Sixteen: Starscream shook his helm, glancing between Jazz and Prowl. Springer exhaled quickly, forcefully pushing himself backwards off the bouncer and crossing his arms over his chestplating. “You can’t tell me that we can’t blast our way through. If we blow the hardware and take down the emitters packed into the walls, that shield will have to buckle. It’s got to have a hole somewhere.”

Chapter Seventeen: Blitzwing brought his other hand up to trace Starscream’s wing edge. “You always lubed up over strong mechs, didn’t you? That’s why you stay with Megatron.” Blitzwing leaned close to Starscream’s faceplates, sneering. “I suppose I should be flattered you think me strong,” he hissed before stepping backwards, still holding the Seeker pinned back against the bulkhead roughly.

Chapter Eighteen: Sideswipe scrambled backwards in the dirt, trying to flee as Soundwave’s larger frame finally trapped him, finally pinned him. He reached out, stepping on Sideswipe’s foot with his own massive blue one, crushing the ankle joint of the red twin beneath him. Sideswipe screamed, shaking with pain as Soundwave knelt down over him, raising his laser rifle to fire.

Epilogue