[TF] Consortium 8/9

Consortium
Chapter Eight

If there’s one thing Optimus had not expected, it was that he’d spend the rest of the morning and a good chunk of the afternoon lazying around a berth with Starscream, the Seeker feeding him sips of coolant and energon goodies and chatting away about all of the good they are going to do. It’s a welcome and remarkable change from the waspish creature Optimus had first met.

It also helps him settle back into his spark. It’s an unusual sensation that words cannot properly describe, the feeling of eight different bonds spinning around his spark, pulling him in eight different directions. He can identify some better than others -- Ultra Magnus calm and steadying, Hot Rod an energetic twirl of endless curiosity, Ironhide strong and defiant, Ratchet constantly on the move, drawing closer to the other orbits as though testing their health.

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