Family forever

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers: Cybertron.

It was entirely unexpected that he would find anyone out here, much less 4 very young Mini-Cons. Vector Prime could not just leave them though. They were destined to help him on his travels, even though they seemed to be too young to understand that. He approached the shuttle slowly and looked at all four sparklings and put a smile on his face as a way of assuring them he had friendly intentions.

"Hello little ones" Vector said to the Mini-Cons.

They immediately huddled closer together. The time and space guardian approached them slowly. "I'm not here to harm you."

The red Mini-Con then spoke perfect Cybertronian and asked "You really mean it?"

"Indeed I do." Vector Prime replied. "What is your name?"

"I'm Jolt!" the Mini-Con sparkling said. "And they are my brothers Reverb and Sixspeed"

*I'm Safeguard* the silver colored Mini-Con added.

Jolt translated Safeguard's statement and inquired "Where did you come from?"

"Well, when a mech and a femme love each other very much…"Vector started to say.

"No, not how you were made!" the red mech got frustrated and interrupted him.

"My apologies for being confused young one." The white, purple and gold ancient Cybertronian said. "I can not tell you that now."

*That sucks* Reverb muttered.

Vector Prime composed himself again and gently lifted the three younger Mini-Cons into his arms. "I'm taking all 4 of you with me on my travels."

*Where are we going to go?* Safeguard asked getting excited.

"Many different places and times as I'll need your help to ensure that I can complete my job that I have been doing since before you were created." The space time guardian answered him.

*Will you take care of us?* Sixspeed ask shyly.

"Indeed I will."

Within 10 minutes of conversing between themselves, the Mini-Cons came to the conclusion that going with the much older Cybertronian mech would be better than staying where they were and agreed to go with him.

*We're still going to be a family, aren't we?* Reverb wanted to know and looked at Jolt as he said this.

*Yeah, we're still going to be a family silly; it's just going to be bigger and it will last forever.* Jolt replied.

He did not realize how true that statement would be…

*A few solar cycles later*

Though they had no mission today, the Mini-Cons would have to keep themselves busy. Safeguard was doing his research on several different universes, Jolt was coloring and Reverb and Sixspeed were playing "tag" all while Vector Prime was typing a journal entry and keeping track of what had already been done around the house. It was hard to say where they were, as all 5 were outside of the time-space continuum but their dwelling resembled that of a typical Cybertronian with steps for the Mini-Cons to get up to their chairs for mealtimes and small berths for them to recharge on in each of their rooms. It had been four days since they had decided to stay together and slowly but surely everyone was getting used to it.

The peace and quiet would not last though; Reverb and Sixspeed had run out of the living room and had gone down the hallway into another room and a crash was heard. Vector Prime immediately got up and went to check it out. When he got down there, he was slightly horrified at what he saw; both Mini-Cons were covered in fragments of something that had shattered and a picture was on the floor, underneath the glass like substance and the table that said picture was on had been knocked over.

"Reverb, Sixspeed, which one of you did this?" the mech asked trying to contain his anger.

*He pushed me and I couldn't stop* Sixspeed looked away as he said that.

*I didn't know that was there!* the blue Mini-Con added.

Vector Prime picked up the picture; he would have to reframe it later. He then put it into subspace and handed both small mechs a broom and dustpan to clean up the mess they made. He put the table back up and walked out, trying not to curse at the 2 of them. The space time guardian then went to meditate, deciding to save the lecturing for later.

A megacycle passed by and Sixspeed had come back into the main room after having hidden in his room for a while. The green Mini-Con looked as though he had been crying for a long time. *Sir, I'm really sorry* he said when he came up to where his "dad" was sitting at the computer.

*Me too* Reverb added. *I didn't know it was important*

Turning around, Vector Prime found that he could no longer be angry with them. He picked them up and hugged them. "I've forgiven both of you. I want you to stay in here while playing from now on, no more going into any other rooms."

*Yes sir* both Mini-Cons said.

Jolt came over to them with Safeguard not far behind. They both asked *who's in that picture?*

The ancient mech smiled sadly but decided to tell them the story. 'Those are my brothers and sister; we were the first Cybertronians to be created by Primus in order to fight Unicron. It was shortly after this picture was taken by a Mini-Con that transformed into a camera that one of them betrayed us all and we were all torn apart."

*What did he do?* Safeguard asked.

"He sided with Unicron and thereafter was only referred to as the Fallen; we later imprisoned him and had to go our separate ways in order to carry out the tasks that had been appointed to us. I am quite certain that not many of them are still alive." Vector answered.

Sixspeed started sobbing. *That's such a sad story* he told his brothers.

"Indeed it is but we must not dwell on the past; we can only change the present and the future and be responsible for our actions now." The ancient mech gave all 4 Mini-Cons a hug to reassure them that he would be fine. "In my case, I have two responsibilities; taking care of you four and taking care of time and space to ensure that no one threatens it, neither of which is easy but I never expected it to be so."

"Do you like us though?" Jolt asked. "I'm afraid you'd stop liking us because we're not perfect."

"No one can ever be perfect but Primus loves all of us even with our imperfections. He would never give us anything we could not handle and it seems he thought I would be the right one to take care of 4 young Mini-Cons who needed a parent just as much as I needed a little bit of company on at least some of my travels." Vector assured him. "Indeed I do like, no love all of you and never expect any of you to be close to perfect. Now come on, it's time to refuel for the evening and then say some prayers."

*Okay.* Reverb said.

The Mini-Con sparklings then climbed down off Vector Prime's lap and headed to the kitchen. Vector Prime himself then got the empty energon cubes and put each one under the energon dispenser to get enough for all of them. They all sat down to eat.

"Vector, may we call you daddy?" Jolt wanted to know. "That's what you are to us."

"You may do so little ones." Vector said smiling. "Who would like to say the blessing?"

*I would!* Reverb volunteered. *Thank you Primus for this fuel and every good thing we have in our lives. Please help us to appreciate it and help us when bad things come to us.*

The unusual family then enjoyed their meal and when they were finished and the table was cleared off, Vector Prime took all 4 Mini-Cons back into the main room. He read a passage from the Covenant of Primus to them and all listened, even the very fidgety Reverb. By the time the space-time guardian had gotten them to finish their prayers, they had all fallen into recharge.

Vector Prime took them to their rooms, first putting Safeguard onto his berth, then Jolt, then Reverb and last but not least Sixspeed. He then went into the main room to write the last bit of his journal entry, thanking Primus for letting him take care of all 4 sparklings and that he had been able to spend an evening with them.

Author's note: Mostly this will be a series of one shot stories although they are all loosely connected. Thanks to Cairistona for being my beta reader.