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I hope I don't confuse anyone with this chapter; I really want to continue where I left off with Jazz from my previous chapter. And thank you all for the reviews.

Chapter 2

Jazz couldn't believe his optics as he stared into a pair of small glowing blue optics. He heard that there were no longer any sparklings left on Cybertron. So to be face to face with one was quite a shock, Jazz's audios heard his friends shift from behind.

"Jazz?" Ultra Magnus called tentatively.

"It's cool; ya can lower your weapons." Jazz called never taking his optics off the sparkling. He couldn't see what color the sparkling was, only the fear on the little one's face.

Jazz put on his famous smile, "Hey there," he crooned softly and slowly reached his hand into the hole.

Sidestep backed away from Jazz as the mech tried to reach for him. "Don't be scared, I'm not gonna hurt ya." He murmured trying to reassure him. Jazz's fingers were close enough to brush Sidestep's cheek. Sidestep remembered what his mama told him to do if a strange mech reached for him and he clamped his dentures down on the mech's fingers. Jazz yelped in surprise and pain at the sudden attack.

"Jazz!"

"Are you alright kid?"

"I'm ok, stay back." Jazz told them through gritted dentures and reached for the sparking again. Sidestep squealed and kicked at the intruder and managing to land a few lucky kicks to Jazz's face. Jazz reeled back, hissing in pain and biting back a curse.

Determined to get a hold of the sparkling and take him somewhere safe, Jazz wiggled in some more despite the hole being far too small for his adult frame. But then he found two sheets of metal around the hole shifted with his bulk, allowing him a wider access into the room.

Sidestep squealed again as the giant mech came into his and his mama's temporary home and crawled away.

He didn't get very far as Jazz caught him around his middle. Sidestep's squeal became a screech and he squirmed as Jazz crawled back out the hole.

Ultra Magnus and Kup cringed as they heard the loud screech. "Sweet Primus! What's making that noise?" Kup wondered.

"He is." Jazz answered as he held the squirming bundle before the other two. Both Kup and Ultra Magnus gaped at the screeching sparkling. Jazz struggled so hard not to drop the struggling sparkling and could only say. "Calm down lil' guy, we're Autobots."

Sidestep stopped his squirming and screeching and stared up at Jazz catching sight of the red insignia on the mech's chest plate. Now that the sparkling was out of the dark room, Jazz was able to get a good look at him. He could see a little of the femme's form in the sparkling's own but the colors were all too familiar even with the bit of blue.

Sidestep turned his head and saw his creator on the ground and he struggled to get out of Jazz's hands.

Jazz tighten his hold on the sparkling, "Calm down lil' guy."

"I think he wants be let down." Kup said.

Jazz nodded and set the sparkling down and Sidestep ran over to Eclipse, kneeling next to her, and waited for her to move. When she didn't, he shook her arm, gently at first and then harder.

The three Autobots watched this and Jazz walked over to the sparkling and kneeling next to him he said, "I'm sorry, but your femme-creator's spark was extinguished." Sidestep stared at him, not understanding what the mech was saying. "You're femme-creator's not coming back."

They watched as coolant pool in his optics, pressing his face into his femme-creator's arm and began to cry. It was a spark wrenching sight to see.

"What are we going to do about him, Kup?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"I think we should take him to the fembots to take care of him."

"Well, I would like to take him with me back to Earth." Jazz told them.

"Are you sure Jazz?" Kup asked.

"Positive. I think some Autobots are in need of a surprise." Jazz said with a smirk.

"Alright." Kup replied.

Jazz pick up Sidestep as the sparkling sniffled. "Don't worry. I'm going to take you somewhere safe." Jazz told him as he wiped his tears away. Sidestep turn his head and stared down at his dead femme-creator.

"Don't worry. We'll give her a proper Autobot burial." Ultra Magnus told Sidestep.

Ultra Magnus stayed behind and Kup walked with Jazz to the space bridge. The other three were shocked to see a sparkling and began to ask questions.

"Calm down boys. I know you want answers but Jazz needs to get back to Earth soon."

"Sorry guys." Jazz apologized as he stepped onto the space bridge platform. Sidestep tightened his hold on Jazz. The black and white mech smiled at the sparkling as Hot Rod activated the space bridge. Sidestep buried his face into Jazz's shoulder as the machine hummed and he and the strange mech were engulfed by light. He squeaked as the machine made his frame tingle in the most funniest way he ever felt in his young life.

Within minutes Jazz and Sidestep landed on Earth. "Welcome to Earth." Jazz told the sparkling with a big smile which widened at the sparklings own shaky one.

Sidestep stared in awe at the strange new world there was nothing like this back at home, Jazz chuckled at the sparklings look of wonderment as he headed towards the Ark.

Sidestep reluctantly fell into recharge just as Jazz reached the Ark, he went in through a side door that only he knew, for he didn't want anyone to see hat he brought home yet. As soon as he was in the safety of the Ark' orange walls, he opened his comm. to Optimus first asking him to come to the med bay, then he commed. Prowl and told him the same thing and finally commed. Ratchet. "Hey Ratch."

"Yes Jazz?" Ratchet responded gruffly.

"I'm heading towards your med bay."

"Why? You better not have done anything stupid" the medic growled his mood beginning to sour.

"Nah, I just have a surprise." Jazz answered.

There was a pause over his comm. link before Ratchet asked, "Is this a good surprise or a bad surprise?"

"Good surprise."

"Alright, I'll be waiting for you." Ratchet snapped and cut the comm. Link without further ado.

Jazz chuckled as he walked into the med bay, he saw that Optimus was already there and was conversing with Ratchet. They turned towards Jazz when he entered and balked in surprise at the sparkling in his arms.

"Is that a sparkling?" Optimus asked quietly awed and a little choked up.

"Yep." Jazz answered.

"Holy Primus." Ratchet muttered as he tried to pick his jaw off the floor.

Just then Prowl walked into the med bay. "What is this all about Jazz? I could feel your excitement through our… are you carrying a sparkling?"

"Yeah."

"Where did you find it?" Prowl asked stalking closer to his mate to get a good look at the sleeping little one.

"Found him on Cybertron." Jazz answered and began to regale them about the Decepticons chasing a femme, her death, her last request to give a message to Sideswipe and finding the sparkling.

"The femme left a message for Sideswipe?" Optimus asked and Jazz nodded.

"We can guess that the sparkling is the femme's, did you recognize her?" Ratchet asked.

"I didn't and neither did Ultra Magnus and Kup."

"Can you describe her appearance?" Prowl asked and as Jazz did, Prowl after a quick scan through his files he said a name. "Eclipse."

"So the question would be: how does Eclipse know Sideswipe?" Ratchet wondered.

"I'll ask him," Prowl informed them and to Jazz asked, "can I have the datapad Eclipse left you?"

"Yeah." Jazz replied and brought the datapad from his subspace and handed it over to Prowl.

Prowl took it and placed it into his own subspace and said, "I will return with Sideswipe shortly."

"We'll be here." Jazz chirped as Prowl left.

"Well, I think I should examine the sparkling." Ratchet said.

"Does he have a designation?" Optimus wondered.

"He hasn't spoken since I found him," Jazz answered, "other than screamin' that is."

Ratchet said nothing as he picked up a scanner. "Wake the sparkling Jazz."

Jazz nudged the sparkling. "Come on little guy, you're in a safe place now." He told the gentle in his words as the sparkling slowly came online. Sidestep look up at Jazz, then he turned his head in Optimus' direction and finally towards Ratchet's.

Ratchet and the sparkling seemed to stare at each other and finally said gently. "I'm not going to hurt you I'm just going to scan your frame." He held up the scanner and Sidestep startled both the CMO and Jazz when he launched himself from the saboteur and clung onto the spluttering medic.

Ratchet looked down at the sparkling clinging to his neck as both Jazz and Optimus tried not to chuckle at the adorable sight and at the gob-smacked face of the CMO. Ratchet narrowed his optics at Jazz and said. "Can you please remove the sparkling so I can scan him?"

"Sure Ratch." Jazz said with a smirk as he grabbed the sparkling's middle and tried to pull him off the CMO. The sparkling refused to budge and only tightened his hold. "He sure likes you Ratchet." Jazz told the CMO.

"Yes, I can tell by his grip of death." Ratchet snarked and Optimus chuckled. Jazz stopped tugging and said, "He just won't let go."

"Jazz, I know you and Prowl had a sparkling, I know that you know how to relax a frightened sparkling." Ratchet growled at the saboteur losing patience with said mech.

"Yeah." Jazz said and began making hand gestures and faces at the sparkling. Optimus chuckled as the sparkling stared in awe at Jazz but didn't let go of Ratchet.

Ratchet growled. "You may find this amusing Prime, but I can't do any work like this." And Jazz couldn't help but laugh as Ratchet placed a hand onto his hip armor and grumbled as Jazz went back to making his strange hand gestures and faces.

"Uh…" they heard someone stammer at the entrance to the med bay and they all turned to see a confused and slightly intimidated red Lamborghini.

They watched as Prowl held out Eclipse's datapad to him and saying in is usual flat voice, "This should explain everything."

They watched as Sideswipe frowned, taking the pad from the SIC and began reading. They waited for Sideswipe to finish the message until suddenly he looked up stunned and wide optics at the sparkling who they saw was peeking shyly at Sideswipe.

Jazz, Prowl, Ratchet and Optimus winced as Sideswipe fell to the floor with a loud crash in a dead faint.

After a breem of silence Jazz said voice filled with mirth, "Well, I must say, I never thought I would see an Autobot warrior faint over a sparkling."

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Shorter than my first chapter and I wanted to continue with Jazz finding Sidestep.