Title: A Tree Grows in Detroit (Yes, you have permission to throw stones at me)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 348
Characters: Prowl, Sari, and a tree, along with it's animal tenets.
Summary: Prowl learns a lesson about how the organic tree end up becoming a strong home. Will nature lead him to a home?

Sari found Prowl in what must have been an office in the old factory. She looked up at him and then in the direction that he was staring at. In the fading sunlight was a tree, its roots having busted up the concrete floor and branches reaching out of the broken sky light. "What are you looking at, Prowl?" she asked.

"It seems that this…tree has other organic creatures living in it," Prowl said. "But…how did it get in here?" He moved closer to the tree and Sari heard the rustle of small animals in the branches. "It doesn't seem possible for this plant to grow here."

"The tree is a lot stronger then it looks," Sari said, watching the dark color bot drop to a knee, pulling away a stone slab from the roots. "The seed probably came through the window or a squirrel buried it in a crack in the floor." She tilted her head, "Just growing in the crack probably widen it."

"So because of its growth, it managed to break up this concrete?" Prowl was awe by the strength that the tree had from just growing. "And the creatures live here because of that strength?"

Sari looked thoughtful, not having thought of it in that term. "Yeah, I guess."

Bumblebee's voice called out from down the hall, "Hey, Sari, I think I found my room. You got to see this."

"I'll be back in a bit." Sari ran out of the room, her steps receding down the hall.

Once the sparkling's footsteps faded into nothing, Prowl laid a hand on the tree. He watched a squirrel come down to one of the lower branches, nose wiggling as it tried to figure out what the Autobot was. "Home is strength and strength is home," he said quietly. 'Perhaps,' he thought, 'I could grow stronger from studying this nature.' He pulled more of the concrete slabs away from the tree. He reached up, cutting off some of the dead branches, leaving the green health ones along. 'May I'll have the strength to finally have a home.'