Over the pink and blue sunset horizon, a twinkle appeared in the starry sky. Steadily it grew larger. Revealing the fact it was no star dying out.

On the Earth below, humans in the local park turned their heads up. One by one more followed all curious to see what was going on. Slowly, the ground began to shake. Some humans gasped and cried out, all generally looking alarmed as their earthquake got stronger. What they failed to notice was the twinkle in the atmosphere was growing closer.

It sounded like an airplane, but a large one steadily growing near. To them.

With cries of terror the humans fled the area. Within moments, collision erupted. A half of the vessel was sent flying, the other firmly lodged in the burnt ground. Among the humans, one stepped forward and took out a radio.

"Optimus, we need you at the park. You're gonna want to see this."

Not too far off, just beyond the fields near the park was a waterfall pouring into the ocean. Below it's murky depths, a ruckus brewed. The decepticons all hovered near a monitor.

Since they observed anything and everything coming to the planet, they were fairly surprised to see an unmarked craft arrive. And not far meant they'd definitely have to check it out. If it was some of their own and the autobots arrived first; they would be lost.

Otherwise... The decepticons couldn't help but smirk. If they held no information they'd make fine pleasure bots.

A large mech suddenly pushed his way through the crowd. "Well? What is it?" he demanded.

A black, red and blue mech turned around and smiled to him. "We don't know Megatron. It did just arrive-er crash.."

"Then go investigate!"

Gulping, the seeker quickly left with his trine to do just that.

When they arrived on the scene, they were pleased the humans knew better to back off. The curious pesky ones that remained were scared off by Skywarp aiming at them. Starscream smirked and looked over his shoulder. "We'll be having none of that Skywarp. The last thing we need is our decepticon brethren to be bothered by humans organs everywhere."

If any humans lingered they were certainly gone now.

As the trio approached they noted the craft seemed to have split. So, they decided for now to check out the closest one. Starscream recoiled in disgust the moment a scent hit him. Fresh energon was spilt. Despite being a battle loving decepticon, the seeker hated that scent. Knowing this, Thundercracker almost gently pushed his way past. "I'll go in." He said calmly and vanished within the ill lit craft. Starscream rolled his optics and ignored Skywarp's smirk. "Hmph."

As the two waited, they tensed seeing Thundercracker return with something in his servos. More like someone..

Thundercracker's face plate was grim as he gazed down at a sparkless femme. She must have been a neutral due to having no Insignia. Still, they all could appreciate she was a looker.

"What a shame." Starscream shook his head and gazed around. "Is that all that was inside Thundercracker?"

"…No."

This surprised the both of them. The two then watched in surprise as Thundercracker lay the dead femme on the ground and pried her servos open. There, and no bigger than a human adult was a sparkling. For a moment they thought it too was dead from the quiet.

As if fearing this Starscream knelt down and picked up the sparkling. Femling he soon noted. A brief flash of sadness appeared in his optics. Sparklings never deserved to die so young..

Starscream sighed. "No survivors. We shall report to Megatron it was a neutral ship…" The second in command went to lay the sparkling with it's fallen mother only to pause. He could have sworn he felt the smallest fidget under his fingers. With wide optics he focused on the femling and gently shook her. "Sparkling, are you alive?"

Thundercracker and Skywarp had remained silent, till both took a step back in surprise when the femling began to suddenly cry. It was obvious she was very upset. From her mother not responding to her and only to wake in a scary full grown mech's grip was terrifying.

Briefly Starscream was taken aback, till instinctively cradling the femling to his chest. "Shh, don't fret. It's alright young one." The other two mechs watched, them too feeling the pity for the orphan. In cases like this, Allegiance didn't matter. Either side could clearly see a defenseless sparkling that would not survive without help. The decepticons as well felt the tug at their sparks.

"Starscream, the autobots are approaching." Either one at said. Starscream had been in his thoughts. Quickly he was on his feet, one arm remaining around the sparkling in stasis and the other clenched tightly.

"We can't risk fighting with precious cargo. My trine, fall back!"

Within moments the decepticons were gone from sight.

The autobots had been having a rather uneventful week. While they took the time to enjoy the peace, they were wary of the Decepticons plotting something. Optimus Prime was the one mostly thinking of this though.

Said Autobot leader was in the rec room with the others when getting a call from Spike. The others soon piped down fearing the Decepticons had done something, especially when seeing the suddenly serious look on their leader's face.

"We'll be right there." Optimus said before the call ended.

"Hey, what is it Prime?" Bumblebee had set down his energon and looked up to his leader curiously.

Taking a breath Optimus looked down. "Spike says something has happened in the park."

"Cons?" Ironhide asked and hit his fists. "We can take care of em."

Instead Optimus shook his helm and transformed. "Let's just hurry."

Within a few minutes Spike smiled as his friends arrived. "Hey guys! Check it out." He motioned behind him. Though he really didn't have to since the destroyed craft was hard to miss. "Is it one of yours?"

Optimus carefully looked it over along with the others. "I'm afraid not. Have you seen anyone leave the ship?"

"No. It's been completely quiet." This raised both their suspicions. Since Optimus could not fit inside to check it out, he sent a reluctant Bumblebee inside. "Ah man..." With a gulp the yellow scout slowly entered. The rest of the bots waited in a tense silence as their friend explored.

To their relief Bumblebee soon enough came out. The young mech was wearing a wide smile, peaking their curiosity. "What did you find?" Optimus asked and placed a concerned servo on the small mech's shoulder.

"Only this."

Bumblebee moved his servos enough for them to see a sparkling in a peaceful stasis. By the looks of it no more than a few Earth days old. Immediately Optimus' optics softened. During a war, such innocent things reminded him what was worth fighting for. Carefully Optimus took the sparkling in his servos. After a moment he tore his gaze away. "Was there anything else?"

"No sir."

Again it soon became quiet, all enjoying the presence of a sparkling. Prowl soon came up from behind the group and brought their attention. "Optimus, it appears the ship broke in half upon landing and… A femme corpse has been found. A neutral.."

Optimus sighed. "No doubt it was this femling's mother."

Optimus then readied his com link. "Rachet, prepare yourself when we arrive. We have… a special patient with us."

Thanks for reading! Tune in next time to see how things go with the femling arrivals!