459. Laundry

The Autobots had become suspicious when they detected a Cybertronian signal coming from the home of one Sam and Mikaela's classmate. They were surprised to find out that the signal was not coming from a Decepticon or an Autobot, but a sparkling!

The Autobots had been very excited by the news and preparations were made for the sparklings care even though they had yet to address the problem of getting the sparkling from Claire and her family without traumatizing the sparking or injuring the humans.

Sam and Mikaela had been encouraged to befriend Claire. Bumblebee had been ordered to observe the family (and hopefully capture some images of the sparkling). He had once had help from Jazz before Ratchet came and dragged the sliver mech back to the med-bay.

Bumblebee had only seen the sparkling in its alt-mode. Claire's family had been very good about keeping it hidden. Bumblebee was beginning to think he would never see it until one weekend when the family's dryer broke. A clothesline had been set up and Claire had gone out to hang up a basket of clothing.

She was home alone and had brought the sparkling out with her. Bumblebee finally got a good look at it. It was a little femme. She was dutifully handing Claire clothespins as the teen hung laundry, at least until a butterfly floated by.

"Hawkeye!" Claire reprimanded as the sparkling began to toddle off. The femme quickly returned to Claire's side and resumed to clothespin duty.