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Arcee was sleeping in her nest within the Autobot base. She had moved back in with the Autobots two months ago, and the Autobots were starting to accept Predaking with some difficulty. Predaking was sleeping beside his mate, and he had his front limbs wrapped around Arcee. Their nest was made up of animal bones, trees, moss, dirt, sand, rocks, flowers, and molten pieces of metal were used to hold it together. In all, it was the softest bed for a dragon to sleep on. Ratchet wasn't too happy to have both Predaking and Arcee create a nest within the base, but the femme told him that they both needed it for sleeping. They used one of the large empty storage rooms to have their nest (since a normal Autobot-sized room couldn't hold Predaking nor the large nest,) while their two sparklings had their own nest in the same room.

On occasion, Jack would come by and he would spend the night with Arcee and Predaking in their nest. Despite Jack having a human mother, he still considered Predaking his dad and Arcee his second mother. Most of the time, Jack would be with his two mates, Miko and Sierra, in his room but he had to go down to Arcee's nest once a month for two days at a time.

It started out as a peaceful morning all together, until a loud "WHEELJACK, I NEEDED THAT" woke up both Arcee and Predaking. The two dragons yawned, as Predaking said "Good morning, my love. Must Cranky be so loud at this time?" Arcee yawned as she wagged her tail to get the energon flowing as she said "It depends; Ratchet only yells like that whenever Wheeljack or Bulkhead break something of his." Predaking yawned again, before he nuzzled his mate and said, "I have no idea how you managed to put up with Cranky and Bulky for so long. How did you do it?" She nuzzled him back as she said "You get used to it after a while."

In the control room of the base, Jack was reclining on the couch as he had his arms draped over both Sierra and Miko. Ever since he came back from the wild, he started wearing shirts again, but he still wore shorts and walked barefoot. He started using soap and brushed his teeth, but Jack chose to keep his hair long.

Raf, on the other hand, couldn't help but watch Ratchet chase Wheeljack around the base. "Wheeljack, how many times have I told you to not use my medical tools to fix your bombs?" shouted Ratchet as he chased Wheeljack. "Come on, Doc. I just wanted to give my grenades a little more power if we're to take down the Predacons" said Wheeljack. "Yes, but not if it means having my surgical tools melted and covered with who knows what" shouted Ratchet as he chased Wheeljack down a corridor.

Both Predaking and Arcee were walking down the hallway when they met Ultra Magnus. Ever since Arcee came back to the base after her mutation, he's had a very short temper, shorter than usual. "Morning, sulfur breath" grunted Ultra Magnus. "Morning" said Predaking before he added another word. Arcee looked at Predaking and stroked his neck as she said "Predaking, my love, how many times have I told you to not call Ultra Magnus that?" He glanced at Arcee, looked away, looked back at her and said "Sorry about that, my love." He then looked back at Ultra Magnus and said "Sorry about that, Sir Regulations." "Apology accepted, razor mouth" grunted Ultra Magnus.

Both Predaking and Arcee passed Ultra Magnus as they continued to the control room, and they saw Wheeljack turn corner and run into Optimus' room. "EEEK!" they heard followed by "Wheeljack!" "Sorry, Optimus" said Wheeljack before he ran out of the room, closed the door, and panted. He then saw Arcee and Predaking and thought Well, it could have been worse. I could have walked in on them.

"Good morning, Jackie" replied Predaking "How are things going along with Cranky?" Wheeljack smirked, shook his head, then said "Ratchet is still as grumpy as ever. It's funny that you're calling Doc 'Cranky.'" He then looked to Arcee and said, "Seriously, how did you meet this guy? I thought that you liked your mechs serious. I had no idea that you liked them with a sense of humor." Arcee chuckled, then said, "Well, Predaking here can be serious most of the time, but he has proven to be a very loving and caring sire, even though he can be strict on the sparklings. He tends to give nicknames to everybody due to their personality, or how they treat him." "Yeah, I still can't believe on what he calls Ultra Magnus. Sure, both the Predacons and Autobots have gotten off on the wrong pede, but I like Predaking here. He might just make a good Wrecker or even a Dinobot," said Wheeljack.

The couple continued into the main control center, and they saw Ratchet trying to repair everything that both Bulkhead and Wheeljack have broken. Predaking looked to where the humans were staying, and he approached them and said "Hello, son." "Good morning, dad" said Jack as he turned around on the couch and faced his stepdad. "Are you ready to mate with your femmes yet, son?" asked Predaking. "Dad, I appreciate that you've taken an interest in me lately, but I'm not ready to mate for offspring…yet. The three of us are too young to even consider raising offspring. Humans tend to wait a few more years before starting a family," said Jack. Miko looked at Jack and said, "Again, Predaking is asking you to knock us up? Is there ever a time when he's not asking you?" Jack looked at Miko and said "About the only time that he stopped asking me to find a mate was when I took both you and Sierra as my mates. I know that the three of us aren't ready to breed, but Dad still thinks that we are."

"Predaking, sweetie, Jack is still too young to mate. He's not ready to produce sparklings" said Arcee. Predaking nuzzled his mate as he said "Ok, dear. I'll back off a bit. But I don't want him to lose his virility while he's still young." "Don't worry. He'll still have it for several more decades" said Arcee as the two headed off to get their energon for the day.