Avalon: Hello everyone here's the chapter you all waited for, hope you'll like it and that it will give you something to enjoy while during the lockdown. I should update more regularly from now on, at least I hope(writer's block doesn't make things easy for me).

Chapter 2:

The whole Truth

Megatron stood there frozen as he stared at Red, not knowing what to say or do for once. He could lie...no she would notice it eventually. She had always seen through lies and deception , always been and excellent judge of character. And again, there was their bond, the moment he would stop her from having access to his emotions and thoughts she would know he was hiding something. There was strictly no escape from the truth, and for the first time in what seemed forever, Megatron was reflecting on what he has done. Why it has come to this, Cybertron dead, Cybertronians dying, and now he and his faction still fighting the Autobots for what was left...What was left? Almost nothing, there was almost nothing left worth fighting over in a sense,except one thing he stubbornly refuses to give up: his pride. It was all he had left. Until now, now he has his spark-mate and his sparkling, he once again had something to lose,something that he had once lost. He was trying to understand, to justify the things he did, but he couldn't. no matter how hard he tried to come up with something.

Only one conclusion came to his mind: he had lost an important part of him with Red Alert's death. He found himself being alone, no matter how much he listened to Orion and valued his support and friendship, it had hurt so much when his purpose was stolen from him. It wasn't Orion's fault , he knew that much. But He couldn't help the feelings of unfairness and jealousy, he had worked so hard toward that one purpose, and in the end it all slipped away because of his anger and hatred for the Senate.

And now there he was, in front of his spark-mate who was about to learn the truth no matter what would happen.

Lily tried to reach to Megatron through the bound but found herself faced with a disturbing mix of confusion,regrets,and anger, an anger directed toward Megatron himself. She looked at her bonded with confusion, she didn't understand what was happening. The fear she felt coming from him then made her consider the hostility that Ratchet seemed to have toward the ex-gladiator. She knew Megatron and thought of what could have happened, he definitely was ruthless, had he done something terrible after losing her? Something so terrible he could barely speak off, and that would be the source of all this hostility.

After a long awkward silence she decided to speak up "Megatronus, I don't know what happened...but you have to tell me the truth"

Megatron nodded solemnly , there was no way around this one. He had to speak the whole truth, he felt Red touch his arm in a comforting gesture. She smiled, a small smile, but she was being as supportive as the situation allowed her to be.

As Megatron was about to begin when Red Alert heard a sound , someone was coming "Hide!" she told all the cybertronians as she went back to her human form and went to intercept whoever it was.

She had expected Sirius, Dumbledore, or Minerva but was greeted by the sight of one very worried Severus Snape, who was completely out of breath.

"Lily, you are alive! So I'm not too late!" he said between pants his face red as he tried to speak even if he was out of breath "Y-you need to hide somewhere else...the dark lord he..."

"Calm down Severus, he is gone. He won't hurt anyone anymore" she said trying to calm her friend.

The potion master let out a relieved sigh as he leaned against a wall and actually start taking the time to have his breath back. "H-How?" he asked looking around then he noticed the burnt patch in front of the house.

Lily tried to think of a way to explain this. then at that moment a man approached them. He was tall and muscular , with broad shoulders.A rather angular face, his vaguely short hairs were greying a little, but the most striking feature were his ruby red eyes. He wore a dark grey leather jacket ,a white shirt a

"I think I am the answer to the question" he says, he frown as he notice how the man had pushed his bondmate behind him trying to shield her. Lily immediately recognized Megatron due to their bond. It would seem the ex gladiator had seen fit to use his holoform to make sure she was safe.

Lily sighed as she could feel her bonded's jealousy "Don't worry Severus, Alexander is not a threat"

Megatron huffed at the designation chosen on the spot but went along with it "Depends for who" he sending a heated glare to Severus who shrugged it off. The spy was used to be glared at like this by those on the side of the light as none trusting his supposed loyalty to Dumbledore. After all it seemed so fake, and he was a Slytherin, he was not above lying and fooling those who trusted him most, or so they thought.

"But you said , that you were the answer to my question? Are you telling me you defeated the Dark lord? I wonder how you did it..." he asked with scorn and disbelief. For some reason he disliked this man even though Lily seemed to trust him so much.

The holoform merely grunted and replied gruffly "classified"

Snape sneered "classified? is that so? Are you from the ministry, I don't recall seeing you before"

Lily shuddered, she felt that Severus was starting to anger Megatron, and she knew that she had to stop Severus before he pushed it too far. She quickly imagined a story and used her bond to communicate it to the warlord so he wouldn't blow the cover she was trying to create for him "As he said all the details are classified , and he has not much to do with the ministry. In fact he is a mundane soldier" she explained

"A muggle? you hope that I will believe some random muggle soldier killed Voldemort!Really how would he have achieved such a fit!" he said

"This is the reason it is classified. what I used isn't supposed to be public knowledge" Megatron replied with a sneer.

Severus began tot think , that meant he had used some kind of new weapon developed by the muggle, a classified one at that...the theft of such a thing couldn't possibly have went unnoticed, and if it wasn't stolen...His eyes widened at the implications "Lily! You have endangered the status of secrecy?!"

Lily shook her head "No, Voldemort did. He killed mundanes, all I did was asking for help. and it paid. Me and my son are alive" she replied.

"And not thanks to you" Megatron added coldly but the look in his eyes made it clear that he was blaming the potion master and whoever else was supposed to be protecting his mate.

"We did what we could! Black betrayed us! He is the only one who could have sold the Potters" Snape replied trying to defend himself.

Lily shook her head "No if any one ratted us, it is Peter, that vermin was our secret-keeper he is the only one who could have told Voldemort" she said anger obvious on her face, which

Snape facepalmed , of course they wouldn't have chosen Sirius as a Secret-Keeper that would have been too obvious of a choice. No Peter was seemingly a better choice, but it would seem he was a traitor. No wonder, the man was a coward, it was a big mistake to trust him with something this important. But James must have trusted him since he was part of his group of friends.

Megatron was showing nothing but he was internally fuming, his mate nearly died again because of these idiots who could not even recognize someone too coward to take a secret to his grave. "Then it seems you are lucky that Lily didn't went with your plans"

Snape didn't reply, he couldn't say anything since he had trusted Dumbledore and what plan he had. But it seemed his trust was misplaced. "Anyway she is not safe here we need to go somewhere else before any of the Dark lord's followers arrive"

Megatron nodded "Yes. I still have things to finish here. I let her in your hands...don't make me regret it" he said with a threatening undertone that sent chills down the potion master's back.

Severus had learnt to evaluate the kind of person someone was based of their voice, the way they stand, and the look in their eyes, and this "Xander", he was serious. It was not a threat it was a fact. If something happened to Lily the retribution would be horribly painful. So the spy nodded sharply knowing that there was no other possible answer.

Lily frowned at Megatron's holoform as he walked away, the look in her eyes made it clear she wasn't done with him, and that she would have the truth, the whole truth. But at the moment there were more important matters, namely bringing her son to where he would be safe. So she apparated with Severus.

When they arrived at the headquarters of the Order at Grimmauld place , there she began to relax, drinking a tea as Harry rested in a cradle by her side. that

is when Megatron's holo form manifested again. He gazed at the small infant in the craddle ruffling his messy hairs fondly while he slept. He could barely believe that he had regained everything he had lost so long ago in just a few hours, it felt so surreal. and what scared him was that he might be on the verge of losing it all again.

He could sense it, how worried Red was, so much worry he felt he could drown in it because for the first time since they bonded...he was shuting her out of his emotions and thoughts. He knew it scared her, but he was to affraid to unveil the monster he had become.

So they stayed there gazing at each other for what seemed like an eternity, neither daring to speak up. the tension was so thick in the air that it seemed to weight down on their slumped shoulders.

After a while, Megatron finally broke the awkward silence "So...I suppose I should be telling you the truth...the whole truth...and I should start with the beginning. " he said finally opening his end of the bond once more.

"You see after you died...I kept fighting thanks to Orion's support. But then I made a terrible mistake" he began the tale of how he and Orion met with the senate and wound up divided, Orion becoming Optimus Prime and Megatronus starting a war since at the time Megatron, blinded by his hatred, thought the senate had rejected him because he was a low-caste and that they wanted to make Orion their puppet. And as years passed he had just let his blind rage consume him not even listening to the one he once called brother thinking that he had betrayed him. In the end this corrupt world that had taken from him his mate, his sparkling and the friend he had called brother, Megatron simply wanted to see it burn.

And he was joined by twisted monsters even worse than those he had been fighting, and in turn those monsters' influence made him fall deeper and deeper into madness. With Starscream he learned he could trust no one, with Shockwave he learned that the end always justified the means when you can get results, And surrounded by monsters who enjoyed violence, he taught himself to enjoy it too.

The only one who stayed by his side in his descent was Soundwave, but the silent mech chose to not oppose the choices of his lord, willing to serve him until the end since there was nothing else he could do.

By the end of the tale Lily didn't knew what to say, she simply stayed silent deep in her thoughts.

Megatron didn't dare to reach to her through the bond, he was too scared to do it. He almost expected her to yell and even tear apart their bond even that could possibly kill them. And in a way he accepted his possibility, in a way it was a punishment he deserved for all his crimes.

Lily finally decided to stand, she silently walked to Megatronus "You are an idiot" she said slapping him across the face before hugging him, and as she did she began to cry on his shoulder. "It's only now that you realize what you did, what you did to us all, and to yourself." she said between sobs.

Megatron was too shocked to even fully understand what was happening as he felt Red reach to him over the bond feeling her warm presence embrace him just as she embraced his holoform. She didn't not hate him, she was angry, sad and confused but she still loved him and didn't want to hurt him.

For the first time in eons, Megatron began to tremble, and for the first time since Red Alert's death he cried. "I'm sorry" he muttered over and over again not knowing what else to say as he still felt Red's warmth enveloping his spark, he felt broken, and yet he felt better than he has ever been in eons.

I am sorry it took so much time, I hope you enjoyed it, it is my first time trying to write emotions, hope it was worth the wait. I'll try to update more often from now on.