Prologue

"l love you, Prowl…" Breathing softly, "...and always will…"

It had been a week since her passing, after the birth of their first and only sparkling. Together. Prowl's spark is very devastating and broken due to the lost of his beloved bondmate Bumblebee. All he ever think of were her final moments with words as her spark was fading away. He is alone, inside the empty room. The place that used to be Bumblebee's room before bonding with him.

If she truly love me forever, then why did she had to left me behind, alone with our sparkling? Prowl thought softly.

He's not looking forward to raise his sparkling alone without her; even though she encouraged him to accept her fate and have Jetfire to take care of their sparkling with her. Still hurt and devastating, he refuses to have Jetfire to take care of his sparkling nor to be with her. He rather not moving on after the loss because he thought it's not meant to be with Jetfire or some bot else; even though both she and Bumblebee were really good friends and always looking after for each other.

Unplanned, Prowl may able to handle and taking care his newborn sparkling on his own as best as he could, despite the carrier is no longer to be around. If he really needs help, he only trust and rely on Optimus Prime with his bondmate Elita-1 or Ratchet for his sparkling's check-up. He also trust Sari as well since both she and Bumblebee were very close best friend since their first meeting. They really enjoyed each other's hangout like playing video games or going on patrolling duties together. She must've truly miss spending time with her robot best friend.

Speaking of her, Prowl isn't the only bot who suffered the loss of his bondmate. Both Optimus Prime's team and the Elite Guards were gathering together at the main room for the memorial sermons service of Bumblebee. Most of them were quiet while others talking as they awaits for the young Prime to deliver the sermons, reflecting the life of a scout, a friend and a mother she could have been for her newborn son.

"I remembered when I met Bumblebee at the Autobot boot camp, we became best friend immediately." Bulkhead remembered the first meeting of his little buddy to Jazz.

"We always talking about our dreams. For me to become a professional paint artist and her joining the Elite Guard."

Jazz frowned as Bulkhead mentions Bumblebee's dream.

"Elite Guard isn't da only dream Bee woulda want. Being a mother of her sparklin' with Prowler as family woulda been sweet with happy endin'."

Jazz thought for a moment and realizing there is no such thing of happy ending now that Bumblebee's gone. Next to Jazz, Sentinel Prime nodded downwards as he listens to the conversation between the white cyberninja and Bee's best friend.

"Yeah, she may be a failure bot at the boot camp but she hadn't failed her love towards that ninjabot and her sparkling when she was carrying." Said Sentinel with sadness.

"I wish I could take everything back for what I have said to that little Bumbler. Of course she made a lot of mistakes during boot camp, however, her spark is kind and brave despite of imperfection."

Both Jazz and Bulkhead nodded with agreement. Meanwhile, Elita-1 was listening their conversation and decides to check on Prowl's sparkling since he was unable to check on his son lately. So, she got up from the metal couch of the main room and begins walking towards to the sparkling's room. From there, she notices Sari had already got there to the newborn's room first before she did a while ago. Elita decided to stand by the door of the room and watching the techno-organic teen quietly with sadness as Sari is talking to that little sparkling.

"You must've missed your mom a lot, little guy." She says softly with sadness.

As she continues to talking to the newborn sparkling, Sari study every details of sparkling's little frame that both Prowl and Bumblebee had ever created. His little optics matches his mother's childlike optics. The color of his whole little frame matches his father's polished color with black and golden tan. His tiny horns is very identical to his mother's signature horns. His very tiny pedes look exactly like his father's pedes, more likely a motorcycle in alternative mode by the time he's old enough to transforms. And his little servos is a same as his mother's servos, only more likely to receive and able to activate the stingers when he's old enough to handle it.

She can tell that the newborn sparkling is more likely growing up and will look like his mother in frame but will look like his father in alternative mode. Elita continues listening the precious conversation between Bumblebee's little organic friend and her little sparkling. Sari is still very heartbroken while gently rubbing the little sparkling's tiny belly tank.

"I know how you feel, little guy. I miss your mom very much, too. She was my best friend and we always hanging out together a lot before you came to this world. She's everything for what a best friend could have ask for. She's very special to me, almost like a mom to me."

Elita's spark breaks as she continue to listen to Sari's conversation with the newborn sparkling. She wished to feel Bumblebee's sparkling from his spark through parenting bond as a mother would do and knowing how he feels. She would probably thought the same thing as Sari that the newborn sparkling did indeed missed his mother very dearly. That poor sparkling was sometimes cries very often for his mother and unable to sense the bond between the creation and the carrier. He sometimes calm every time his father is checking on him as he's sensing his bond between the creation and the creator. However, due to Prowl's depression, he was unable to sense his father's spark after all.

Suddenly, Elita was startled by the door and was hope she didn't make any noise to Sari with the sparkling. It was her bondmate Optimus as he is just checking on Prowl's sparkling.

"It seems he's finally calmed down with Sari. Not surprisingly they were best friends before passing." Says Optimus softly as he gently lean closer a kiss to his bondmate's upper faceplate.

"He has for now until she's going home tonight, he would be no longer clam afterwards." She says.

Both Optimus and Elita were worrying and concern for Prowl's sparkling. They thought it's going to be another long night as they've been struggling to keep the black and gold cyberninja's sparkling calm as much as possible and keeping recharge peacefully. They don't mind at all helping Prowl to keep his sparkling recharge during the night while he has long road recovery from his loss. Besides, they even offered their help after hearing the tragic news of Bumblebee and they want to make sure they help him enough so he won't have to be worrying too much while caring for his sparkling. Of course he has the rights to be worry for his son as a father.

However, this is different. Ever since his bondmate's death, the grieving new father had developed issues with anxiety and fearing losing his sparkling. This might have explain why he hasn't spending time with his newborn as he fear of hurting his little one. He would never, ever do anything to hurt his newborn sparkling and fearing carry or cradle him as he thought dropping by accident or becoming ill without a cure. That's when Optimus decides to go check on Prowl.

"I have to go, Elita. I promised to Ratchet that I will be checking on him before the service."

"Please go check on him. I am extremely worry about him." She chided with concern. "Make sure he's alright. And don't forget to tell him if he's ready, I will happily give his sparkling back to him in Bumblebee's room. He hasn't coming back for his sparkling since the first checkup."

"Don't worry, I will. I will make sure he's doing okay and hopefully have his sparkling recharge with him as well."

Optimus give another soft kiss on his bondmate's upper helm once again and begins to leave. She wave him a goodbye with sadness and resume watching between Sari and the newborn sparkling.

Oh, Bumblebee. I wish you were there for your son and your best friend Sari. They really missed you a lot very dearly. Especially Prowl. He really truly missed you to his spark. And I missed you a lot as well, my little sweetspark. She thought as she's begins to cry in tears silently.

I will cherish the moments with our memories and always will within my spark.