A/N: I do not own transformer, no matter how much I wish I did.

"..."- talking in cybertronian

Prologue

Mirage sat back in the pilot's seat with a sigh after checking the scanners one last time. The small craft that he and his sparkmate were

piloting was the only ship for several hundred hics, at least, that's what the scanners said. The spy could only pray that the Decepticons

didn't find them, especially with his mate in such a weakened state. Sighing again, Mirage stood up, the harsh lights of the ship gleaming

dully off of his cobalt blue armor that looked like it had seen better solar cycles. Her felt his mate reach out over their bond and he responded

as he walked down the hallway until he reached their quarters. After carefully keying in the code, the door slide open and he entered the room.

His sparkmate, a mech with dull army green armor named Hound, was standing by a cradle that was pushed against the wall. Inside the cradle

was a small sparkling protoform who was curled up on their side and deep in recharge.

"Did she just go into recharge?" asked Mirage and Hound nodded tiredly.

"She was sparked barely six solar cycles ago and she's been in recharge for most of the time." said Hound "I didn't know that

sparklings recharged this much. Do you think something's wrong with her?"

"We'll have a medic scan her the next time we dock with the Ark." said Mirage "Until then, we just do what the data pads in the

medical room say and hopefully Ratchet won't beat us senseless when he finds out that we didn't have a medic present when

she was sparked." Hound nodded as he smiled at his sparkmate.

"We still need to give her a designation." he said "Have you thought of any yet?" Mirage shook his head.

"Not yet," he said "But hopefully we'll think of something soon."

"Hopefully." said Hound before stretching "I'll go watch the monitors while you get some recharge. With any luck, we'll meet up with

the Ark soon and get a well deserved break."

"That would be nice." said Mirage "We've spent the last stellar cycle searching for the All Spark and getting ourselves attacked by

Decepticon raiding parties. I'm sure we've more than earned some time to relax." Hound nodded before walking over to the door.

"Have a nice recharge." he said before leaving. Mirage nodded and looked at his sparkling one last time before climbing onto the recharge berth and

slipping into a peaceful recharge.

Hound sat in the pilot's chair as he tiredly watched the scanners. Carrying and sparking his and Mirage's sparkling had taken a lot out of him and he was

still recovering from the ordeal but he was confident that he could hold off some decepticons if need arose.

"I need to think of a designation for our young sparkling." he said as he leaned back and looked up at the ceiling "And it has to be a good

designation because our little one is going to be something special." He was brought out of his musings by the alarm going off "What in the

name of Primus." He looked at the scanner "Slag! Decepticons!" He hit the button for the intercom "Mirage! Get your aft up, we've got company

and not the good kind!" Mirage answered back barely two nano-klicks later.

"Understood Hound. I'm going to hide our sparkling in an escape pod and I'll meet up with you in a klick."

"Just hurry Mirage!" said Hound before focusing on evasive maneuvers as the Decepticons began to fire at them. Mirage came into the room a few moments

later and slid into the co-pilot's chair before powering up the weapon's systems.

"How many of them are there?" asked Mirage as he bean to return fire.

"At least three." said Hound "And two of them are Seekers. The third is that pit forsaken triple changer, Blitzwing."

"Primus, this isn't going to be pretty." said Mirage "Let's just pray that we survive this." Hound nodded in agreement as an explosion

rocked the ship.

A moan escaped Hound as he came out of stasis. On-lining his optics, he glanced around the partially destroyed control room. Mirage had also just come back

on-line and was sitting up.

"I really hate those slaggin' seekers." said Hound as he pulled himself to his feet with the aid of the control panel. A blinking red light on the panel caught

his attention.

"Frag!" he said "One of the escape pods has been jettisoned!" Mirage pulled himself to his feet and the two of them took off down the hall. Hound was

the first one into the room where the escape pod were stored and he frantically began looking through the pods. Mirage came in several nano-klicks later and

found a frantic looking Hound standing there.

"She's gone Mirage!" cried Hound "The pod she was in was jettisoned! Please tell me that the pod was pre-programed to head to the Ark."

"It should have been." said Mirage "Unless the auto-pilot was damaged. Let me check." Mirage went over to the computer terminal and began typing.

He startled Hound by slamming his fist on the keyboard.

"Frag!" said Mirage "The auto-pilot on that pod was disabled and I can't seem to track it's signal. It's like the pod vanished completely!"

"What are we going to do Mirage?" asked Hound.

"We need to meet up with the Ark first." said Mirage "They have better scanners on the Ark, so we will have a better chance at finding her.

Don't worry Hound. We'll find her, no matter what." Hound nodded in agreement.

"I just pray that she's alright." he said quietly.

-Meanwhile in a distant star system-

A silver mech with dull blue eyes stood outside the mountain cave that hid his spaceship/home, staring up at the stars. This world was peaceful and the

perfect place for an old timer to rest their weary circuits. It was also full of life. That was what brought the ancient Autobot to this world, years ago. Even

though he was a warrior, he had the heart of a scientist buried deep within his circuits and he's observed the tiny organic creatures called humans as they

evolved and grew. In a way, they weren't to different from his own race, in fact they were so similar that it unnerved him occasionally. But there was one thing

Kup missed more than anything and that was the young ones. Sure, there were plenty of other old timers hiding out on this planet that he could talk to, including

a cranky ex-Decepticon called Jetfire, (who decided to take up residence in his space craft) but Kup really missed having young ones around because they were so open

and understanding and they actually enjoyed his war stories. Unfortunately, he hasn't seen a young one in the few hundred earth years that he's resided on this planet.

He focused his gaze on another part of the night sky and was surprised to see a bright object heading towards the earth. The scanners in his ship hadn't detected

any comets or meteors in the area, so the only logical conclusion was that it was another Cybertronian, which was odd because he hadn't picked up a Cybertronian

signal in well over a meta-cycle. The object streaked across the sky before crashing nearby. Kup quickly made his way down the mountain and over to where the

object had crashed. He passed several downed trees and followed the deep rut in the earth until he came across a standard small shuttle escaped pod. Carefully

going down into the deep hole in the ground, Kup went over to the cooling metal pod and ran a scan on it. He was surprised to detect a faint spark beat within the

pod and he quickly pried the still warm metal hatch open. Shock ran through his circuits when he saw the small femme sparkling nestled inside the pod.

The sparkling was looking up at him with beautiful and bright cyan blue colored optics.

"How did you end up here of all places little one?" asked Kup as he gently picked her up. The sparkling didn't answer him, she just looked up at him

as she chewed on her fingers before smiling at him. Kup smiled back before looking around the pod to see if there was anything about her designation in

there but he found nothing.

"It seems as though you are in need of a designation young one." said Kup as he looked up at the sky with a thoughtful expression on his face plates.

A particularly bright star caught his attention and even though he didn't know the Cybertronian name for the star, he remembered what the humans called

the star. Sirius is what they called it and it was one of the brightest star in the sky. They name seemed to fit her because her optics were some of the brightest

he had ever seen. A smile crossed his face plates as he looked back at the sparkling.

"How do you like the name Sirius, young one?" he asked. The sparkling smiled and giggled in reply.

"Then that settles it." said Kup with a smile "Your name shall be Sirius." He turned and began walking back towards his home with the newly

dubbed Sirius in his arms "I'll take care of you little one, I promise."

terminology

Klick: one minute

Nano-klick: one second

Solar cycle: a day

Stellar cycle: a year

Meta-cycle: 13 months

LwZS: Yes, I paired Hound and Mirage, because they're two of my favorite characters. Also in this story will be a Prowl/Jazz pairing and an implied

Starscream/Skyfire pairing. Also Sirius will not be the only sparkling that Kup raises but you'll have to wait until next time to find out who the other

two are, so see ya next time! Also, please press the review button and leave a comment if possible. All comments will be used to help knock some sense

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