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Get ready for a clichéness opening! :D
"And what, pray tell, is this?"
Starscream frowned, arms crossed as he stared at the preening medic. Primus, if Knock Out was one of those organics it would have to be those birds that strutted around. What were they called? Ostrich? Chicken? Who cared? He had been called upon by Knock Out to observe a new weapon he made. And by the look on his faceplates he wanted Starscream to bring it to their Lord so he could approve of it. The only thing was...
"What does it do?" Asked the Second in Command in an impatient manner.
Knock Out smirked, holding the impressive weapon in his servos while he held it out for all to see... though only Starscream was in the room. "I call this the "Divider."
Starscream slowly raised an optic ridge. "The "Divider?" He received a nod from the red sports car. "I repeat my earlier question... What does it do?" An irritable frown crossed his faceplates once more.
"Ah, that's the interesting part," Knock Out's optics grew more manic while he placed the weapon down carefully onto the surface of the table. "You have heard of split sparks?"
"Of course." Starscream almost looked insulted. Every mech has heard of split sparks. Dreadwing and Skyquake were fine examples of that.
He also remembered those blasted Autobot twins. Last he heard they were causing massive amounts of trouble.
"This..." Knock Out patted the weapon with a servo while he gave a dashing smile. "can split a spark, literally." He hummed and glanced at the trinket. "If I had a test subject I could... well, test it. Hence, test subject."
"Yes, yes, I get it!" Starscream waved his hand at the medic, his scientific curiosity while he leaned in to get a good look at the weapon. Split a spark... He wouldn't mind seeing this tested on one of those Autobots. "You need to test it. So? Just get one of the Vehicons. They're expendable enough." He saw no problem with it.
"Yes, but it won't be the same as using it on an Autobot," Knock Out almost pouted before he placed a hand on his hip plates, staring at the weapon. "Though I wish I could use it on an officer..." He glanced sideways at the SIC.
Starscream saw the stare, and bristled. "I will not let you use me for one of your experiments! I will not cast my life away!" He took a step away for extra measure. "You do not need an officer! Use the Vehicons!" He turned, about to stomp out of the room.
"I was only joking, Herr Kommandant," Knock Out smiled brightly at the SIC, almost beaming innocently when the lithe mech turned and sent him a glare. "I would not do such a thing. But if I must, I will use one of the soldiers." He started setting up the machine. "Now, if I could just find Breakdown he can drag one in here..."
"Why not just summon one?" Starscream almost scoffed, crossing his arms while he watched the motions. A very complex way to turn it on. "Why do you need to do all of that just to turn it on? Why not find a simpler way?"
"I'm still perfecting it, Starscream, so please..." Knock Out rolled his optics and shook his helm lightly. "And come on, as if a mech would willingly go to his death. What would I say? I need you for an experiment. If your spark splits, it's a success!" He called out in a very sarcastic tone while he sent the mech a dry look.
"Keep your sarcasm to yourself," Starscream snapped lightly, turning his helm and immediately sneering when he saw Soundwave walk into the room. "Soundwave." He greeted, in a not-so-friendly way.
Knock Out looked up momentarily before he went back to work. "Do you need something, sir?" He greeted lightly.
Soundwave, as silent as ever, walked over to the medic to replay a message Megatron had for him. Knock Out listened, turning his attention to the Communications Officer. Idly, he was still setting the weapon, tightening a screw that looked a little loose. As soon as he finished his test he was going to make the weapon smaller. So, Lord Megatron wanted him to fix his hand? Apparently, his servo was making a sound he did not like.
"Yes, I can do it," Why he sent Soundwave to tell him he didn't know, but who was he to question the wisdom of their leader? Maybe it was so the mech could finally socialize. "Just send him here when you get back."
Still silent, the Communications Officer gave a nod and turned to head out of the room.
"Knock Out," The sports car looked at the SIC and raised an optic ridge in question. Starscream was staring at the surface of the table warily. "Why does it look like it is getting ready to fire now?"
"What?" A frown marred his faceplates before he took a glance at the weapon, jumping when he saw electrical currents surrounding the tip of the gun. Did he set it while he was asking what Soundwave wanted...?
He did the next best thing.
He gave a loud femme—uh, mechly scream and turned to dive out of the way.
Starscream, realizing what had happened, turned to run out of the room.
Soundwave twisted around to investigate what was going on.
As soon as the weapon set off, shooting at the three mechs, it covered the area in smoke. Thankfully, since there was no fire the water system did not go off and douse the area. One would have thought that being shot the three would have died, but... As soon as the shot hit them all three felt something stir in their sparks before intense pain hit the three of them. It engulfed them, causing all three mechs to cry out before the pain bottled up. Suddenly, it felt like it detached itself and caused the three to feel immense relief.
Before one got very angry...
"Knock Out!" Starscream screeched, pushing himself up and coughing to get the smoke out of his intakes. "You could have killed us!" More importantly, he could have killed him. He glanced around quickly, optics wide with fury. "Show yourself!"
He caught a flash of red through the smoke, quickly lashing out gripping whatever he grabbed as hard as he could—hopefully it was his head, so he could bash it against the floor! But as soon as he tightened his grip he froze when he heard a cry. A soft cry. A cry that sounded too... small. If that made sense. Unconsciously loosening his grip Starscream pulled whatever he grabbed out of the smoke so he see what it was.
What he found stunned him into silence.
His optics shot wide open, gawking at the small frame. Large optics peered up at him, looking slightly watery from the harsh grip. Programming seemed to 'click' inside of the SIC's helm, which made him flinch. Starscream spluttered before he picked up the sparkling—the sparkling—with as much care as he could.
"...Knock Out?!" Starscream almost screeched, staring at the small mech in shock.
"What?"
His helm shot to the side, almost choking when he saw Knock Out—full grown—wave his hand(to bat away the smoke) while he tried clearing his intakes. He looked between the two, helm snapping back and forth.
What the Pit?!
Two Knock Outs?!
Two?!
The medic frowned when the SIC refused to say why he called him. Sure, he accidentally set his weapon(he blamed it on Soundwave... even though it was his fault), but he could at least say why he yelled his name like he had seen the Pit maker. Looking up, he glanced at the thing Starscream was holding. The frag is that? He stared at it before his optics grew wide. He recognized the paint job... He gave a loud surprised yell and backed away. He didn't have a sparkling with anyone!
He froze when he bumped into something, his helm snapping to look behind himself when he heard a small 'thump.'
Knock Out made a strange sound, staring down at a small... Soundwave!?
Yep, visor and everything!
The visor tilted up, not even crying when he fell to the floor. The tiny frame then picked himself up, moving towards the frozen medic on short legs.
The Second in Command and medic both seemed to start choking, staring at the two sparklings in complete and utter shock.
Though once the smoke cleared and they looked up it seemed as if they wanted to run and hide under their berths when they saw what Soundwave was holding. Large optics peered at them, a small frame of Starscream sitting in the lap of the Communications Officer. Three sparklings... Three sparklings of themselves... How did...?
Starscream and Soundwave, as one, both turned and stared at the medic when he fell over.
Mini Soundwave stared down at the unconscious medic, tilting his helm before he waddled over to the sports car. Turning, he sat down—or rather, plopped down—and leaned against the mech.
Starscream, optics remaining wide, gawked when the three sparklings turned their tiny helms to stare at both he and Soundwave. The Communications Officer, silent as always, turned to stare at him, as well, as if asking him what they should do. Gently, as much as he could, he set down the mini version of Knock Out, trying to ignore the large optics staring at him before he stood and walked over to the medic. Reaching down, he picked up mini Soundwave and set him elsewhere. Once he finished doing that he pulled back a leg...
...And kicked Knock Out as hard as he could.
That seemed to work.
The medic let out a pained yell and lurched, gripping the area he was kicked. "Ah, Starscream!" He gasped out, staring up at the SIC. "I had a strange flux! I-It was so strange, it almost seemed real! There were three sparklings that looked like you, me, and even Soundwave! Though the one of me looked much cuter than..." He went quiet when he saw said sparklings. "Scrap."
"Be quiet!" Starscream glared down at the medic. "Figure out how this happened!" He held his servo out towards the sparklings.
"W-What? Oh. Yes. Of course," Knock Out sprung into action, grabbing the closest sparkling and rushing towards the berth. He set down the sparkling—Soundwave—and began to scan him. He paused, scanned again, and checked the reading. He looked up, glancing at the bigger version of Soundwave before he also scanned him. "...This is strange."
"What. Is." Starscream ground out, his servos placed on his hip plates while the mini version of him held onto his legs as he waddled around the room.
"The readings on both Soundwave and... Soundwave... are the same," Knock Out ignored the strange sentence. "Exactly. That shouldn't be... If Soundave had a sparkling, let's say, his offspring would have a different reading, but this..."
"The same?" Muttered the SIC. He placed a servo on his chin, looking down at the sparklings when they chirped. "So, they're one and the same."
"Yes, though that shouldn't be possible," Knock Out tapped the visor of mini Soundwave, causing the sparkling to flinch and start to squirm. "I'm going to have to conduct more tests. If my weapon caused this, then I should be able to reverse it."
"Knock Out," The medic hummed. "You said... your weapon was supposed to split the sparks of those it shot."
Silence.
Complete silence...
Slowly, the sports car glanced at the sparklings and themselves before he began rushing out the room, grabbing various tools. Hmm... Usually the medic was composed. Starscream glanced at the silent mech, frowning when he saw him heading for the exit.
"Where are you going?" He didn't like how he was holding onto the sparkling of Knock Out.
Soundwave didn't answer.
Then, without warning, Knock Out grabbed onto Soundwave and hauled him back towards the berth, scanning both identical frames of Soundwave and looked at the readings. He then set them up to a machine, continuing the scans. Without the permission of the silent mech. Every time Soundwave tried to disconnect himself Knock Out just set the cables back up. This continued on for a while until Knock Out just froze.
It happened so suddenly it even made Soundwave pause.
"Well?" Starscream snapped.
"..." Knock Out glanced at the sparklings before looking back at the readings. "...Split sparks..."
"What?" He was starting to get annoyed. Well, he was already annoyed, now he just wanted to tear out the medic's optics.
"My weapon did work, just... not the way I expected it to," Knock Out cleared his intakes, almost like he was clearing his throat if he had been human. "It split the sparks of the target it hit, and now... this is the result." He held out a servo towards the chirping sparklings.
Meaning, their sparks had split... and the part of the spark that was not within their chassis were now waddling around the room.
Starscream tried to calm down, he really did, but...
"WHAT?!"
All three sparklings jumped and squealed at the screech, coolant gathering in the corners of the sparklings' optics while they whimpered. Though they soon started chirping when Starscream tried choking Knock Out, not that it would do anything. It just made the SIC feel a lot better.
Mini Soundwave was lifted off the floor, looking up to see the bigger version of himself holding him before he turned and started heading for the door.
"Where are you going?!" Starscream sent the mech a glare. "We cannot tell Megatron! Soundwave, where are you going?!"
The mech played a recording of what he just said. "-Tell Megatron!"
Knock Out suddenly dashed towards him until he was standing directly in front of him. "Wait!" He held up his servos, almost relaxing when the mech did as he was told. "Do you not understand?!" It was probably bad that he just insulted him, but who cared? "Your readings are exactly the same as... you!" He held out a servo towards the sparkling. None of this was making sense! "Soundwave, what I'm saying is that this sparkling holds the other half of your spark!"
Starscream frowned before he seemed to realize what he said. "Are you saying...?"
"Yes!" Knock Out rolled his optics in exasperation. "Soundwave, you cannot let anyone see this!" He glanced pointedly at the sparklings, glancing at the two on the floor when they rolled over and started giggling. He tried ignoring the sight. "If anyone were to kill the sparkling half of you, you would die, as well!"
Soundwave was silent, as always.
Slowly, he turned his helm until he was staring at the tiny version of himself.
It almost looked like he was hugging the sparkling closer now.
Starscream turned to stare at the two sparklings on the floor while the medic rubbed his faceplates. It was silent in the room, once again, with the exception of the sparklings making noise and trying to play with some tools in the room. As soon as he saw this Starscream picked them up. It won't do to have sparklings playing with sharp tools.
He then asked the million dollar question.
"What now?"
I know the whole sparkling thing is a cliché now, but I don't care! :D I love the thought of one of the mechs turning into sparklings! :3
I don't think it's hard to guess that I'm stuck with my other story. :( It makes me sad just how stuck I am! DX But I'm still trying to work through it. :D
This story will have the characters acting majorly OOC! So, if you don't like that, don't read. :)
Why Soundwave is involved? He's too awesome not to involve him. X3
Should I continue? :3