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Optimus stared at the reports in front of him of the suspected locations of the Decepticons recent whereabouts. Elita and her sisters had already left to get the rest of their squadron to start searching. They had decided that splitting up would be the best choice of action for now. The sooner the Decepticons were found, the sooner Optimus and Elita would have their sparkling back with them. But right now Optimus was having a hard time focusing on all of the reports he had. Every few breems he would lose focus and worry would take over his mind. What was happening to Bumblebee at that very moment? Was he alright?

Why did you have to do this brother? Optimus thought. Why couldn't you have just left Bumblebee alone? Why did you have to start this war in the first place?

Optimus put the report down and closed his optics, letting past memories play throughout his mind.


Optimus knew what Elita was going to say before she said it. He had seen it in her optics for the past few orns ever since she returned from visiting the Youth Sectors. And he knew that it was only a matter of time before she finally told him what she wanted. Honestly he was surprised she hadn't come to him before now.

"Optimus I want us to have a sparkling."

"Elita I thought we agreed that we would wait until the war was over before having one," Optimus said.

"That was vorns ago Optimus," Elita quietly replied. "I'm starting to think that this war is never going to end."

"It will end," he promised. "It wouldn't be safe for us to have a sparkling now. It would be targeted and would have to grow up during a war. I wouldn't want that for our sparkling. I want our sparkling to be able to live in peace. We should wait."

"Wait for what? One of us to die? Optimus what if we can't have a sparkling after the war is over? What if you're dead! What if I'm dead by the end of it!"

Optimus stared at his sparkmate in surprise for a moment before walking over to her and pulling her close to him. He understood her worry about one of them dying before the war was over and he knew that there was a chance that that could end up happening. And the same thing could end up happening to their sparkling if they had one. Optimus knew that it would kill Elita if they had a sparkling and something ended up happening to it.

"That won't happen," he said to her.

"You don't know that," she murmured. "We can't control fate."

"A sparkling could get killed."

"I know that Optimus. I know all of the risks having a sparkling would bring. But I think the rewards would be greater. I know I want to have a little Optimus running around the base."

"A little Optimus? How do you know it won't be a little Elita?" he asked with a smile.

"Oh I just know," Elita replied. "So are we going to have one or not?"

"You truly believe that this is a good idea?"

"I do."


So they had had Bumblebee and it was a decision that Optimus would never regret. Bumblebee was a light in the dreary world that he and Elita were living in. And Elita had been correct in thinking that the rewards of having a sparkling would be greater than the risks. But risks always loomed over them, and now his sparkling was in enemy territory. And Optimus had no way of knowing what was happening to him. Bumblebee was still alive, he could tell that much, and at the very least he could take some comfort in that piece of knowledge. Optimus picked up another report and started looking over it while another memory entered his mind.


He smiled looking down at the sparkling that was currently recharging in his arms. After Ratchet had checked over the sparkling one last time a joor ago, Optimus and Elita had taken their son back to their room. It was then that Optimus finally held Bumblebee for the first time. The little sparkling had woke up for a few breems when Optimus held him, but soon fell back into recharge. Ratchet had reminded Optimus and Elita that sparklings usually mostly only recharged for their first few orns and that for their first vorn they would need to recharge often.

"Arcee and Chromia want to see him," Elita said. "I told them they could come later."

"I have been thinking that we should only let our closest friends know about him right now."

"I agree," Elita replied. "So that's Ironhide and Ratchet, who already know, and Jazz for you and my squadron for me."

"That sounds about right."

A small coo caused Optimus to look down at Bumblebee in his arms. The sparkling had woke up and was now reaching a tiny servo up at him. Optimus lifted him up a little higher and let the sparkling pat at his face. Elita let out a small laugh while Optimus just smiled at their son. Bumblebee turned his head at the sound of Elita's laugh and cooed at her. She walked over and took Bumblebee's servo in her own.

"What's my little Bumblebee doing?" she asked him.

The tiny sparkling let out a series of clicks at Elita as if he were answering her. Elita smiled at him and nodded her head. Bumblebee turned his head back towards Optimus and clicked at him before patting his face again.

"He gets entertained easily," Optimus said to Elita.

"We're going to need to get him some toys to play with," she replied.

"We can do that later when he's recharging."

Right then the most important thing to Optimus was spending time with his family.


Oh how Optimus wished that his family was with him right now. In his opinion no one should have to deal with a missing sparkling. It was then that he picked up the report that gave him the information he had been searching for. Kaon – the worst possible place for any Autobot to be and the perfect location for the Decepticon base. It was a good distance from Iacon, but not too far to where it would take more than a few joors to get to. And Kaon was the place where Bumblebee would be found. Optimus just knew it.

Hold on little one. I'm coming.


A/N: Originally I was going to have this chapter focus on Bumblebee at the Decepticon base, but then the two flashbacks in this chapter popped in my head and I had to write them before I forgot about them, so I decided to focus on Optimus instead. Next chapter will be about Bumblebee.