Chapter One - A New Beginning

My eyes struggled to open, it was as it there were weights on my eyelids. I tried to swallow but heard mutliple whirls and clicks instead, it came with the same relief so I wasn't too bothered.

I felt like I was floating, like there was nothing that could hurt me, even though I felt like something important was happening around me. I just couldn't find the strength to move.

There was a rumble near me, the ground vibrated and I was lifted gently into the air. By what, I had no idea. All I knew was that I was in a very comfortable position, with what sounded like a heart beat next to my ear. It helped me slip back into unconsciousness.

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The next time I woke up, it felt like I was being held which in itself was strange. There were multitudes of clicks and strange whining noises that were very close to me. Now that I was a bit more awake I could sense that my body felt slightly off. My eyes were still closed and it was too hard for me to open them.

Something wasn't right.

There was no ability to lift any of my limbs and this alone made me panic.

"Rachet, there is something wrong with the sparkling"

This soft timber voice managed to make it's way through my minds panicked state. It made me panic even more, who were these people around me and what kind of a name is Rachet? There was a strange beeping coming from somewhere close by, I couldn't really identify where and this disorientated me further.

As I became more awake, there was something flickering on the inside of my eyelids. Something blue. Something not quite normal.

I didn't usually have things that I could see with my eyes closed. Something else popped up on the inside of my eyelids, a little symbol that looks almost like a gas tank. It was flickering red, contrasting with the blue.

As soon as the symbol came up, I was overcome with this intense hunger. Not for normal food but just something to energise me, this hunger gave me the strength to open my eyes.

As soon as I did, I wanted to shut them again. There was something big standing over me, something robotic. Something with bright blue eyes filled with curiousity, it made some sort of excited noise, presumably because I was awake.

"Bumblebee! You're scaring the sparkling!"

What the heck was a sparkling?

Another massive robot, slightly bigger than the yellow one came over and pushed 'Bumblebee' away from me. I was glad for the breathing space but the bigger robot scared me more. I looked down and was surprised to see wiring and mechanical parts near me. I reached out a hand to move them away but felt the strange sensation that what I was touching was a part of me.

My eyes widened and I screamed. I say screamed, but what came out of my mouth was a series of clicks and whirls, definately not what I meant to say.

I looked back up to see at least five robots looking at me, along with what looked like some soldiers. I pushed myself backwards and tumbled over the edge of what seemed to be a table.

Shocked squeaks erupted from my mouth as I went over the edge, the bot closest to me, an all black one lunged for me. Catching me before I could do any damage to myself and cradling me to his chest.

That was a close one.

Now all I had to deal with was some sort of Japanese robots. Yeah, they have to be Japanese.

The green bot previously dubbed Rachet took me from the bots arms and gave me a look over. I felt a little weird when he did so and realised that he was actually scanning me.

Those Japanese are good.

"There is no damage" Rachet confirmed before putting me on the floor, clearly not wanting to be close to me. I felt a bit offended, and gave him a look to which he chuckled. How dare he not take me seriously... why wasn't he taking me seriously. I took another look down at myself, and concluded I was also a robot.

That took a few seconds to fully sink in.

Oh yes, I was apparently some sort of tiny robot! Was I experimented on? I must have been, scientists must have cut out my brain and put in this robot body. Who did this to me? When I got my hands on them they were gonna get it!

My furious thoughts were cut off when one of the soldiers came forward. "So is this some kind of baby Autobot?"

What the heck is an Autobot?

Bumblebee made some cute whirling noises, bobbing his head happily and bending down to be face to face with me. He was a bit too close for my liking so I attempted to stand up. I managed to move both my arms underneath me and pushed myself upwards, wobbling uncertaintly as my balance was completely off. The soldier in front of me smiled and tried to encourage me to move towards him, but I was more interested in the door. As soon as I was certain I wasn't about to fall over I attempted to take my first step.

I immediately fell on my arse. Huge tears fell from my eyes as there was an intense pain from where I fell, the sensative wiring was buzzing from the impact and this left me unable to get up. Rachet came forward and picked me up, clicking slightly which set me at ease strangely enough. He did something to ease the pain and this was when the flickering gas tank in front of my eyes caught my attention. The intense hunger hit me once more.

I whined as this hurt my tiny body, I grasped for the bot above me, desperate for some relief. He gave me a confused look before he seemed to realise what I wanted.

"The sparkling is hungry"

There was a flurry of movement as both human and Autobot alike wondered what I could have to eat.

One of the soldier held out a pineapple, from where he pulled it I had no idea "How about this" He got smacked over the head by the original person to approach me.

"We need energon" Came a voice from behind me, seemingly having just entered.

"Optimus, where are we gonna get energon?"

"From the source" Rachet and Bumblebee exchanged looks and nodded hesitantly.

"What's the source?" One of the soldier asked.

Optimus came to stand next to me, fondly looking down at my small form, before gently scooping me up into his chest. I was at least seventy feet in the air, maybe even more. Optimus looked down at me with a slightly longing look. "The source is the stars" He looked outside into the cloudless day and sighed. "The stars we use to collect gases that we can turn into energon"

I was impressed with this, they were going to go to the stars to get me something to eat. Now that's what I call dinner time service. My stomach made some sort of garring noise, I just hoped they were going to do it soon.

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It didn't take as long as I thought it would for them to get me food, I was left with the soldiers for about two hours while they went on their newest mission. The yellow bot, Bumblebee, seemed the most excited about it. You'd have thought he'd never seen a baby robot before.

The bots bundeled back into the room, Optimus held a vat of what looked like glowing blue particles floating about. My stomach clenched at the sight of it. Was that supposed to be my dinner?

Optimus approached me with the vat, carefully crouching next to me and pushing a button on my chest that opened it up. I gaped down at my open body and saw what looked like a cube of light radiating from my chest. The light pulsated and I realised with startling clarity that this was my heart. Optimus held the vat near my open chest and lifted the lid, the glowing blue particles lifted into the air and floated over to my ... heart.

I watched curiously as they touched, my heart glowed brighter and the flashing gas tank light slowly went away. My eyes drowsily began to close but I stubbornly kept them open as my 'feeding' continued.

My entire tiny robot body felt warm and content.

It was a feeling that I could most certaintly get used to. Everyone gathered around me, the humans watching in awe at the exchange.