Starscream clenched his denta as he looked down at the tiny seekerlet that was held out to him.
Everything he had set up in the past few days had worked far better then even he had hoped.
Unlike Megatron, who planned on enslaving the Autobots, Starscream granted them freedom in the Decepticon Empire as long as they swore loyalty to him.
Of course, at first, they all had refused hotly, but when Starscream had laid down his plans for the Cybertronian future, they had quieted.
Optimus had been the first, and they all came over after that.
Starscream kept his promise, and even though he gave the highest seats of power to his Seekers, he had wisely paired them with an Autobot or Decepticon that was knowledgeable in that department as their second.
He had Optimus as his advisor.
Thundercracker and Jazz were his bodyguards.
Ironhide was still Optimus's bodyguard.
Skywarp was in charge of relations with other planets, along with Bumblebee.
Soundwave and the Shimmer trine (Sheen, Glint, and Pass-Through) were in charge of surveillance, along with Mirage.
Prowl and the triplechangers were in charge of law enforcement.
The Wind trine ( Windwing, Windwhistle, and Windflight ) and the Aerial Bots were in charge of air security.
Shockwave and the Forest trine (Greenshadow, Eagleswift, and Ternswoop) were in charge of Energon mining, along with Eleta 1.
The coneheads and Omega Supreme were in charge of energon distribution.
The Rainmakers and Beachcomber were in charge of weather reporting.
Red Alert and the coneheads were in charge of ground security.
Skyfire and Preceptor were in charge of science.
The Constructicons and the Structure trine ( Tallshadow, Sheerdrop, and Roofdiver) along with Hook and Grapple were on the construction team.
And so on it went.
They had moved back to Cybertron, and were currently working on re-building their empire from the metal shavings of what it once had been.
Starscream worked hard at freedom for all, side by side with Optimus, and even though many times they argued, their unofficial peacemaker Thundercracker would smooth things between them and help them find a balance.
All was working well; even the formal ceremony when he took Glavatron as his adopted son went well, and even Sunstorm, his real sparkling, seemed happy.
First Aid, Bluestreak, and the only trine of femme seekers in the universe were the official sparkling sitters when the Command Trine could not be there.
But he had not been expecting the ten exploring trines and bots to find an abandoned seekerlet out past some distant planets in another galaxy and expect him to adopt this one too, giving him and his trine the three they dreamed of.
This was a Horned Seeker; a species the Zenith Seekers like Starscream and most of the other Seekers though was long dead.
"Next I'm going to get a report that Mini Seekers live in Cybertron's core." He muttered at he peered at the tiny sparkling, who reached towards him, purring.
Starscream's spark melted, and he nodded briskly at Ratchet, who was in charge of all medics along with the Medic trine (Pulse, Spark, and Core) who had been holding the seekerlet.
"I'll take him." He said as he tickled the young one.
And he named him Cyclonus.