New story! So, I've officially given up on The Perks of Being the Allspark, but this new story Eternal Sparks will use a lot of the ideas I had for it, but the plot will be different and it'll actually go somewhere this time. The story will be similar to TPOBTA more towards middle, but the beginning and the end will be a lot different.

Here are a few differences. The sparkling fluff will take place on pre-war Cybertron, Alpha Trion will be the sire-figure instead of Ratchet (who will be more like an uncle) and Knockout (who will be his flirtatious self), the Allspark incarnate will have a new name, the whole fan-brought-into-the-Primeverse factor will be completely dropped, their will be interdimensional travel to a couple other Transformers continuities, and a whole bunch of other stuff I won't mention.

Now for similarities, this story will be rated T for now, but will be raised to M later, it's still AU (but a lot more since I'm starting in pre-war Cybertron,) the main pairing is still going to be Optimus/OC/Megatron, the Allspark will be responsible for the creation of humanity, Megatron will still force dark energon into the Allspark incarnate's spark (although I haven't figured out how quite yet), a lot more Autobots will be in this story than in the show and I'm not mentioning anything else, so you'll just have to wait and see.

I really do think this will be much better than whatever I was going to do with TPOBTA, but for those of you who still want to read that, Xireana Prime has asked to adopt it, and I said yes. So, be on the look out for it.

Anyway, this is just a prologue, and I'll warn you now, it'll be awhile before we get to the events of the show. The next several chapters will be pretty fluffy, too. Enjoy!

P.S. the prophecy sucks, but I'm no good at poetry.

Prologue

Over and over again, Alpha Trion read the passage he had written into the Covenant of Primus only breems ago. In between, the ancient, forgotten Prime stared at the Quill, in awe of its reality-bending power for the first time in eons. Strange how such a seemingly common, banal stylus could hold such power over the universe.

Once more, Alpha Trion reread the newly written passage.

In hopes of preventing a slaughterous segregation,

Primus shall grant his First Daughter and his Last Son their wish

to liberate all sparks from their long endured repression of the spurious Prime.

The First Daughter and the Last Son shall be reborn as the creations of the Third Son

while the Fallen shall be reborn into his vocation in penance for his treachery.

The reborn shall come together to propose a better Cybertron to the Council

where the Last Son will become the Last Prime.

Alpha Trion surmised that his siblings the Allspark and Optimus would be reborn and do away with the caste system developed by Sentinel Prime. After subspacing the Covenant and the Quill, Alpha Trion stood from his desk and left the Hall of Records, heading for the sparkling centers near the Well of Sparks with a bounce in his step. It had been eons since he had seen any of his brothers or sisters, and now he was going to raise his eldest sister and his youngest brother as his own.

A fond smile took form as Alpha Trion lost himself in his memories of the two. They had been inseparable from the moment his sister had been allowed to incarnate after Unicron's defeat until she returned to the Well with Optimus, Micronus, and a mortally injured Onyx where she gave birth to the Cybertronian race. It did not surprise Alpha Trion that she and Optimus wanted to rid Cybertron of the detrimental caste system. She had been nothing if not compassionate and impartial, as well as candid to a fault when met with inequity. Alpha Trion could only imagine what she would say to Sentinel Prime should they meet.

Best to keep the two apart for as long as possible, Alpha Trion thought to himself. Or at least ensure Optimus is with her.

Optimus had always been able to quell her temper before it could get her into trouble. Many of the potential quarrels had been brought upon by their siblings' treatment of Megatronus. Being their leader Prima's counterbalance had made the other Primes wary of Megatronus, and she had not approved of his maltreatment in the slightest, almost to the same level of Solus Prime.

A realization caused Alpha Trion to falter momentarily. When he last saw Megatronus, he had exiled himself to the stars after renaming himself the Fallen. He must have perished at some point between then and now. The thought of his fallen brother gaining another chance made Alpha Trion smile and continue on his way. He had no doubt that was their older sister's doing. He hoped Megatronus had overcome his conflicted nature during his exile or his time in the Well.

Alpha Trion arrived at the sparkling center and was met by a vivacious femme attendant. "Hello, sir. Welcome to the Sparkling Center. My designation is Starcatcher. Are you here to pick up your registered sparkling or sparklings? Or are you here to register yourself so that you may someday become a surrogate creator to said sparkling or sparklings."

Alpha Trion blanched. He was not registered as he'd had no intention of becoming an opiluk until less than a goon ago and he did not have time to go through a lengthy process that could take orns, maybe megacycles. He could sense his brother and sister were near, and he did not want to make them wait for such a long time.

Before he could think of an answer, a commotion erupted from behind the doors that led to the creche just before two sparklings burst out. One was a dark blue femme with jewel purple accents. She had purple wings―indicating she was a flyer―but were apparently iridescent as they twitched in the light. The other sparkling was a mech with a helm and legs the same color blue as the femme as well as a red midsection and arms. The femme spotted Alpha Trion first and squealed before promptly sprinting over to clamp onto one of his legs, her companion not far behind her and taking the other leg.

Starcatcher appeared flabbergasted. "Nebula and Orion Pax, what in the name of Primus has gotten into the two of you?"

Alpha Trion merely chuckled. It was glaringly clear to him who the two sparkling were, and so he knelt down to unlatch them so he could hold them in his arms.

Nebula kissed his cheek before whispering, "We missed you."

Alpha Trion smiled tenderly and brought her forehead to his. "As I have missed you." He turned to do the same to Orion Pax. "As well as you."

Starscatcher finally shook herself from her astonishment. "My apologies, sir. These two are normally the most placid sparklings this center has ever witnessed. I have no idea what brought this about."

She made to take them away, causing Orion to bury his face into Alpha Trion's shoulder and wrap his little arms around his neck as tightly as possible. Nebula, however, merely stared right into Starcatcher's eyes with an intensity a normal sparkling would not be capable of.

Starcatcher's arms lowered as her expression glazed over. "My apologies, sir." she began, her voice serene, as if she were about to fall into power down. "These are clearly your sparklings. I'm certain you'll take good care of them. You may take them home, now."

Still in a trance, Starcatcher turned to the doors the sparklings had come out of and disappeared into the room. Alpha Trion stared after her for a moment before looking down at Nebula with a reprimand on his glossa.

She interrupted him before he could get a word out. "She was gonna tag' us away, an' you would no' been able to stop her, an' you know it."

Alpha Trion stared at her for a long moment before sighing in exasperation. "I see neither time nor being incarnated as a sparkling has changed you a bit."

Nebula beamed. "Nope, buh he no' 'member anyt'ing." She pointed at Orion, whose face was still buried into Alpha Trion's shoulder. "He just knows wha' I tell 'im, an' I do no' tell 'im too much."

Alpha Trion turned to Orion Pax, who had apparently fallen into power down, and hummed in contemplation before turning back to Nebula. "He will one day receive the Matrix of Leadership. I gather he will regain his memories then?"

Nebula nodded. "Uh-huh. Dat's what sire said."

Alpha Trion hummed once more before he turned back to the entrance and began the journey back to the Hall of Records.

So, in this AU, sparklings only start out as 'babies' if they're born the human way. If they come straight from the Well of Sparks, they start off as toddlers who can walk and speak broken cybertronian, that way they can give their names like in G1, but cuter.