Sunstreaker vented a sigh. He had been sitting out side the base and watching the pink thing for a while now. He was soo bored. He had found out that he wasn't allowed to leave the base since he had the pink thing. He had hoped to find Sideswipe, but the pink the was getting annoying so he'd thought to bring it out side for a bit. It was currently playing with some pebbles on the ground. Sunstreaker sighed again. So. Bored. He jumped a little when he felt a light tap on his shoulder. Looking behind him he saw it was Hound. "Oh. Hi Hound." Sunstreaker frowned. "I thought you went to India?"

Hound chuckled at Sunstreaker. "I did, it was a short mission. What are you doing sitting out here?"

Sunstreaker glanced back at the sparkling. "The pink thing was being annoying so I thought I'd let it play out here." As they watched the sparkling suddenly decided to try eating the pebbles it was playing with. "Hey! Don't do that!" Sunstreaker reached over and picked it up, causing it to drop the rocks. The little sparkling wined and tried to reach down at the ground.

Sunstreaker frowned "Oh great. Now it's going to cry again."

Hound chuckled. "Here." He held a small white and magenta flower out to the sparkling, who gurgled happily and grabbed the flower and waved it around giggling.

"What's that?" Sunstreaker frowned at it.

Hound smiled. "It's a lotus flower, I found it while I was in India. I figure that will make her forget about the rocks."

Sunstreaker frowned. "Thanks."

Hound "No need to thank me. And besides, look. The flower is the same color as her." He smiled as the little sparkling continued to swing the flower in Sunstreaker's face, giggling happily. "I have to go report now, have fun with her."

Sunstreaker frowned at the flower in his face. "Yeah. It is." Glancing up as Hound left he called after him. "What did you say the flower was called?"

Hound paused and glanced back. "It's a lotus." He called back before continuing on into the base.

Sunstreaker watched him go then glanced at the little sparkling. "Lotus." The sparkling paused and looked up at him with her big green optics.

"What?" He frowned at her. "You like that name? Lotus?" The little sparkling smiled widely up at him "Nii!"

Sunstreaker smiled despite himself. "Alright, Lotus it is. Now, I'm bored. let's go bother some one." With that Sunstreaker turned and walked into the base, Lotus grinning widely and clutching the flower as she bounced happily in Sunstreaker's arms.

Sideswipe walked down the hall, irritated, making his way to Skyfire's lab. He had been ordered by Red Alert to obtain something to cover the edge of their berths so the sparkling wouldn't hurt itself, with Wheeljack in the med-bay, and Perceptor as complicated as ever, the red Lamborghini had just opted to ask the large flier. He needed to thank him anyway, for the help after his little run-in with Cliffjumper. Man, his head still hurt. Not where he had been punched, though. It was more so where his head had collided with the floor. Though the punch to his face kinda hurt too.

At the very least, it wasn't Brawn who punched him. He didn't even want to think of the consequences of being punched by Brawn. In fact, he didn't want to think much at all right now. Primus! The headache was murder. Though it hurt a lot less than a wrench to the head, so it couldn't have been too much damage. At the very least, he was happy it had started to fade off a bit. The silence in the near empty halls helped. He smiled slightly, picking up the pace a bit.

He rounded a corner, and paused, staring at a white back. "Someone please come take her back! I don't know what to do with her!" Red Alert called down the hall, Sideswipe stared at him, slowing down to a near creep. The Security Director was sparking a bit, and obviously panicking. Sideswipe tilted his head. "Hey, Red." The smaller Lamborghini jumped a pretty good few feet into the air, before spinning around and staring. Sideswipe glanced down, noticing the Sparkling in his arms. "When did you-" "HERE! TAKE HER!" Sideswipe jumped, having the sparkling shoved into his arms, he quickly took hold of her, and Red let go. Sideswipe watched in slight shock as he spun around, and took off running down the hall, taking the corridor opposite of where Sideswipe was currently heading.

He was obviously going to the Security room.

Sideswipe turned to look at the sparkling, who giggled and swung a flower up, whacking him in the face with it. Sputtering, Sideswipe shoved it away lightly, and examined the sparkling. She was fine, cheerful, and playing with the flower Sunstreaker had earlier mentioned. With a shrug, he shifted her into a better position and started walking again. Best not to question the random occurrences that happen on the Ark. Prowl crashes periodically for doing that, so it's a well known fact that it's better not to.

So, taking a turn to his right, he walked a few paces before stopping at the open door which stood as Skyfire's lab. Peeking in, he looked around, spotting the shuttle leaning back and sipping a cube, absently examining a small, circular object. "Hey, Sky'!" The shuttle jumped slightly, lifting his head to focus on them. "Oh! Hello Sideswipe." A smile crossed white faceplate. "Is there something you two need?" Sideswipe took that as an invite, and walked over to the shuttle, who set the disk aside and glanced down at them.

Lotus waved her hands at him, as if reaching. Skyfire lifted a finger to her slowly, and she happily grabbed onto the digit, giggling like mad. Sideswipe grinned and set her on the flier's lap, where she proceeded to cling to his hand and play with her flower. Sideswipe shifted to look at the now distracted Scientist in the faceplate. "So, red told me to come get something to point-proof the edges of our berth with. So she won't hurt herself?" Skyfire hummed, and nodded. "Yeah, he told me about it already. I have some right here." -he reached with his free hand, grabbing a plastic sack and offering it. "Thanks." Sideswipe examined it, before turning to watch Skyfire play with the Sparkling gently, making her giggle.

"Hm, maybe you should give some tips to Sunny."

Sunstreaker stormed down the hall toward Skyfire's lab. He had recently found out about Cliffjumper randomly attacking Sideswipe. And so he had gone to beat the slag out of the little minibot. But before he could even land two good hits, Jazz had come out of no where and tackled him. Then BRAWN showed up with Huffer and Blue streak and Jazz and Brawn literally DRAGGED Sunstreaker out of the room. Now he was dented, sore, and angry. On top of that, he had left the Lotus with Red Alert, who had handed her off to Sideswipe, then refused to tell Sunstreaker what he had done with her. Now he had to go and get her from Sideswipe.

Rounding the corner into Skyfire's lab, Sunstreaker all but roared. "Give her to me!"

Both Bots jumped as the golden yellow twin stormed in, and demanded back the sparkling that had been placed in his care. Skyfire had, thankfully, had a secure grip on her to prevent her from falling off his lap, and therefor hadn't dropped her when he jumped. She had paused in her wondering, jade green optics staring wide at the mech currently standing in the doorway. Having paused in her gnawing of Skyfire's index finger, she sat awkwardly there, twisted half around to see Sunstreaker, yet not loose her grip - both by hand and mouth - on the shuttle's finger. Skyfire looked equally as startled, blue optics staring at the doorway in shock, and slight fear.

Sunstreaker did have that effect on most of the gentler bots...

Sideswipe turned to frown at his twin. "Jeez Sunny, give us all spark attacks!" Placing his hand where his spark was held - in his chest, currently beating about 50 miles per hour - he grinned slightly. "What's all the commotion about?" He frowned, watching as Skyfire gently tried willing the Sparkling to release his hand. It ended with giggling, tighter clinging, and a slightly distraught Scientist.

Completely ignoring his brothers comment, Sunstreaker quickly walked across the room and took the little sparkling from Skyfire. Luckily it let go of the scientist's finger when he grabbed it. Turning he walked away slightly then sat down on the floor. He was sore and tired and still angry. The sparkling immediately began gurgling and waving it's flower in his face again.

Shooting a glare at Sideswipe he growled. "Fragging Red Alert refused to tell anyone what he did with Lotus. He wouldn't even tell Jazz! Fragging little glitch!

Sideswipe frowned as Sunstreaker, watching as he took the sparkling from the still startled Skyfire, before stomping over and sitting down. He grumped and grouched about Red Alert having messed with him, and Sideswipe found himself wishing he could roll his optics - like humans do their eyes - but he settled for a mildly irritated look in the golden yellow mechs general direction. Skyfire shifted awkwardly, before turning and UN-steadily getting back to his work. Sideswipe shifted his weight, crossed his arm, and fixated his gaze on Sunstreaker and his 'charge'.

"Well," He began, shifting his weight again. "You did leave him with the kid. And we all know how well he handles kids." Reasoning would probably achieve nothing with an angry, overprotective Sunny, but it was worth a failed try. "As for not telling you, it was probably his twisted way of getting back at you. Who knows. The workings of that guys mind are a mystery to us all. And would undoubtedly crash Prowl faster than Megatron in a pink, frilly tutu singing; 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star' to his 'beloved' SiC." Taking a glance to the rather stiff shuttle, Sideswipe took a step towards his ever-seething twin. "Red Alert's mind games aside, how about we head back to our room." Lifting his hand, he shook the bag at the other. "I have those 'edge guard' things said Security Director told me to get."

Rattling the back for a moment longer, before dropping his hand to his side. He glanced over his shoulder to Skyfire, and offered the friendliest smile he could managed with the bundle of emotions sitting across from him on the floor. "See ya later, Skyfire. Oh! And would you mind making some child friendly toys for the kid, here?" Flicking his thumb to the side, pointing to the sparkling in Sunstreaker's arms, he grinned. Skyfire glanced at him, and smiled. Nervously. "S-sure. No problem." He quickly got back to his work. Sideswipe let out an exasperated sigh towards the skittish scientist, and gave his brother yet another irritated look.

"Before I forget. I want to thank you for helping me out yesterday." He smiled in Skyfire's direction again. "And I want to apologize for my Twins actions. He's just moody. Don't mind him." Putting on his sweetest smile, usually one he would preserve for getting back on Sunstreaker's good side after doing something more irritating than usual, he nodded his head at the Scientist, waved a hand, and swooped down to grab Sunstreaker by the upper arm. "Now come on 'Daddy', we need to go baby-proof our room." He stated with a frown at the two.

Sunstreaker shot a glare at his twin, before shaking him off and standing up. He was NOT moody, and even if he was he had EVERY right to be. He was NOT in the mood to deal with Sideswipe's stupid jokes. Shooting another glare at his irritating twin, Sunstreaker stormed out of the room and down the hall, the pink thing happily snuggled against him, looking around with her big green optics. This whole thing was so ridiculous. Red Alert had had NO reason to not tell him he had given the pink thing to Sideswipe. And frankly, Sideswipe could have said something as well! Now Sides' was giving him that annoying LOOK like it was all his fault! He just wanted to get back to the room and recharge.. Primus he was sore...

Sideswipe stood there a moment, watching his moody twin stalk off down the hall with the sparkling, before venting an exasperated sigh and fallowing him down the hall. Primus, currently he was in no mood to deal with Sunstreaker and his mood-swings. In fact, he wasn't in the mood to deal with Sunstreaker at all. Going around and picking fights, which Sideswipe held no doubts he'd get punished for too. Coming back, scaring Skyfire, grumping about, stomping off! There was no doubt that Sideswipe would be the only one baby proofing the room too. Fun.

And that also meant he'd be stuck in a room with him and that little pink trouble maker. It almost felt like everything had started going downhill when she showed up. None of this slag would be happening if one of the other 'Bots on base had taken her. She'd be someone else's problem. But nooo, they had to stick it with SUNSTREAKER, which, of course, meant Sideswipe too. Which had begun to result in this whole mess. Slagger should know better than to give someone as violent as Sunstreaker something to be even more violent about! Bunch of dumb afts.

Stalking off after Sunstreaker, Sideswipe began to get that feeling that some of that moodiness was seeping through to him. Slaggin' Sunstreaker! Nothing but a wreck-less bundle of irritated emotions, running around and complaining, asking for help, then acting as if he never wanted or needed it! The nicest he had been about this whole thing was when he was half asleep! And that no longer counted. Not. At. ALL!

Getting more irritated as the moments passed, Sideswipe went on to ignore his irritating twin up ahead, and glare at the floor as they walked.

Sunstreaker ignored the seething red jerk behind him as he stalked toward their room. It wasnt HIS fault any of this was happening! He didn't choose to have to deal with the fragging pink thing. Why should he have to deal with everyone being so obnoxious! He had enough to deal with! Storming up to the door to his and Sideswipe's room he punched the keypad to open the door and stormed in, the pink thing giving the now sparking keypad an odd look as they passed. Sunstreaker quickly strided across the room, savagely kicking a few random objects out of his way, and dropped down on his berth.

Sitting there he looked down at the sparkling in his arms. It had that stupid grin on its face again, and was swinging the fragging flower around still. As it noticed him glaring down at it, the thing grinned wider and started reaching for his face. Sunstreaker quickly leaned back to avoid the little hands. He was NOT in the mood to deal with this.

Sideswipe found himself going in a bit of a loop, the more Sunstreaker ignored him, the more he seethed. The more he thought about the inevitable interactions bewteen them, the more he seethed. Sideswipe was finding himself becoming more and more irritated with his grouchy twin, for reasons he...honestly couldn't figure out. Sure, he was a bit irritated with him to start, but now it was just getting out of hand. And he didn't really care. If he punched Sunstreaker anytime in the near future, it would not come as a surprise.

Something about Sunstreaker's more recent behavior just...gah. It was just...so...frustrating! The bad part was it seemed directed more so at the little pink thing in his arms than Sunstreaker himself. Jealously? Over a little pink brat? No way! Whatever it was, Sideswipe wanted nothing more than to just...lock himself up in the nearest closet and stay there until things went back to how they used to be. Sunstreaker has been nothing but unstable and emotional sense the sparkling arrived, and was only getting worse as time passed.

Apologies, thank yous, none of those would make Sides' mood brighten any. Even if it was from Sunny, and he meant it! Heck, if he turned around and suddenly apologized, or thanked him, Sideswipe held no doubt in his mind he would SLUG the slagger right in the face! What irritated him more than Sunny at the moment, was his own irritation, and it's unknown source. He was fine earlier, and now...argh! Sunstreaker just has that gift, that gift of making everyone mad!

And of course, Sunstreaker punching in their keypad did wonders for his current mood. Now he'd have to ask for yet another thing from Skyfire! Venting a long sigh, and counting to ten, he stepped through in time to see Sunny kick a controller across the room, shattering it on the far wall. Make that...yet another thing in need of repair. Oh, and just to make it better, Sideswipe watched in slight horror as pieces fell against that abandoned paint bucket on his berth, tipping it over. Tipping over the can beside it. And spilling both cans. All...over...the berth.

Staring at it for a moment, a forced expression of calmness...Sideswipe stiffly strode to the berth, grabbed a towel, and begun to try and clean up the mess. Ignoring the fact it was, in fact, Sunstreaker's towel. He attempted to wash the mess of red and black off his berth.

Sunstreaker watched as Sideswipe stalked in and started cleaning up the mess of paint. With one of HIS towels. Normally, that wouldn't bother him very much, but with his mood, it just made him MORE angry at his twin. The sparkling had now managed to pull its self up to a standing position and get a hold on his head fin. It pulled down, giggling, and making his head tilt to the side, infuriating the yellow Lamborghini even more. This was ridiculous. He didn't want to have to put up with the thing anymore. Ever since he found it in the desert everything had been going wrong. He wanted to be able to have a conversation with his brother with out been nagged about what to or not to do with the pink thing. Ever since he had found it Sideswipe had been getting more and more irritable. He preached about how it was Sunstreaker's responsibility and he didn't care, then turned around and started telling him about what not to do! If he didn't CARE why did he keep going ON ABOUT IT! He just COULD NOT figure out the seething red mech across the room. And right then, he didn't really care. Sunstreaker fell to attempting to glare holes through the far wall and willing the sparkling tugging on his helm to disappear.

The more irritated Sunstreaker got, the more agitated Sideswipe got. And the golden yellow mech seemed to just be getting more and more irritated with every. passing. second! Ignoring his seething twin as best he could, as well as that irritatingly happy little atrocity in his arms. Cooing and doing...something. Rubbing as hard as he could, Sideswipe continued to try and clean the paint off his berth so he could rest for a moment as well. Soon enough the sound of ripping fabric could be heard, as the towel caught on an edge and tore under the strain.

Of course, the moment it ripped his hand jerked from the tug, splattering paint all over the berth, wall, and himself. Standing there a moment, Sideswipe let the towel fall from his hand, irritated, agitated, and...yet again, with paint in his optics. "..." A slight twitch, Sideswipe's last nerve finally blew, and he kicked the berth in-front of him HARD. Hard enough to rattle it, growling, he began trying to calm himself down again. At that very moment, the sparkling decided to let out a few shrill sounds of laughter, making him twitch. Trying his best to ignore the irritating sound - and sound that would normally not bother him in the slightest - he knelt down to pick up the ripped towel.

The sounds continued, grating on his already blown fuse. And it finally got to him. "AUGH!" Spinning around, Sideswipe glared at his twin. "STOP TRANSMITTING YOUR MOODINESS TO ME!" He flailed his arms a bit, frustrated. "IT'S PISSING ME OFF!"

Sunstreaker had barely been controlling his anger, but as Sideswipe random turned and screamed at him, he just snapped. "WHAT THE SLAGGING PIT DO YOU MEAN MY MOODINESS IS PISSING YOU OFF! You don't need ME to make you mad for no slagging reason! You've been pissy ever since this STUPID pink thing showed up! I'M TIRED OF ALL THIS RANDOM SLAG! Everyone keeps RAGGING on me about taking care of this thing I DON'T EVEN WANT! YOU INCLUDED! You get mad at me for NO REASON! You go on and on about it not being your problem, and you not caring and BLAH BLAH BLAH! Then you SPAZ because I'm not doing something right! Then when I GET mad because of this stupid fragging MESS, YOU FREAK OUT ON ME! I DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING TO YOU!".

The little sparkling had finally ceased pulling on his helm and was staring at him, wide optic-ed. He ignored it. Rising quickly to his feet, Sunstreaker stormed across the room. Pulling himself free from the pink things now lax grip, he shoved it at Sideswipe. "Now it's YOUR problem, and YOU can deal with all this slag. I'M LEAVING." With that, Sunstreaker spun and stormed out of the room, and headed straight for the base enterance.

Sideswipe was speechless at Sunstreaker's rant, having been screamed at, guilt tripped, and had a baby shoved into his arms. Sunstreaker had then stormed out the room, leaving him there feeling a little worse-for-wear, with a startled child in his arms. Staring after where his twin stormed off, Sideswipe vented a heavy sigh and sunk to sit on the floor. The startled sparkling in his arms shifted to his lap, where she proceeded to gurgle and stare at the broken, still open door. Someone had probably heard...which meant more drama on base. Just great...

Shifting to glare at the sparkling, as she hit her flower against his chest, Sideswipe could only think and say one thing; "This is all your fault." Looking up at him with wide green optics curiously, she clicked and gurgled curiously at him. Giving the sparkling a hard glare, he contemplated just...shoving her off one someone. Of course...while that could probably solve all their problems, Sideswipe somehow doubted Sunstreaker would be happy once he got back. The pink thing chose that very moment to start sobbing.

Perking, Sideswipe looked down at the distressed sparkling, holding her flower close and letting out sniffles and sobs, staring at the door. Primus he was not in the mood to deal with this. Scooping her back up, Sideswipe stood and started pacing. Bouncing her slightly in one arm, making her little sounds go up in pitch occasionally. Walking in circles for a moment, spaced out and thinking over the latest fight between him and his golden-yellow emotional bubble of a brother... Soon enough the kid started giggling, giggles rising in pitch with each bounce.

What had annoyed him earlier was somehow infectious this time around, as he looked down at the cheerful sparkling clapping and giggling in his arms. Bouncing her again, she suddenly reached for his face, grabbing his mouth by each corner and causing a frown as she pulled down, as if trying to pull herself up. To save himself from the pain, he simply lifted her up. Freeing his mouth, her grabby hands went straight for his cheeks, where she suddenly grabbed him on both sides. Pushing his cheeks in, watching his lips pucker from it, then releasing it to be met with a frown.

She continued doing this over and over, giggling each time his expression changed. He vent a sigh as she finished playing with his face, only to let our a frustrated grumble as she attempted to climb over his head. Lifting her up, off, and over back into his arms, he proceeded to give her an irritated look. And was met with an adorable, wide-optic-ed look, flower turned in to her face, covering her mouth and nose. Those giant, green optics shone at him innocently, as she clicked curiously.

It was adorable...

And suddenly his face met the flower, as she shoved it right up to his nose. Twitching, he pulled his head away as pollen crept up into his nose. Shifting her into the fold of his arm, he turned his head and sneezed the offending substance back out. He stiffened and looked down. And was again, met with wide green optics, of the sparkling now curled up against him, looking sleepy. "...Stop that." He got a curious look in return. And Sideswipe vented a sigh, sitting down on Sunstreaker's berth. "Stop trying to be cute to get on my good side..." He got no reply other than a small yawn, and a head snuggling against his chassis. He watched as she drifted off to sleep, cycling slow and evenly, a thumb in her mouth.

Leaning back, Sideswipe vented a sigh, pressing his back against the wall, careful not to wake the baby. "...I'm sorry..." Shuttering his optics, Sideswipe frowned and lowered his head. "All I ever do is mess everything up...I'm such an idiot..."


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