In the beginning of the third week of carrying Blurr could feel the sparkling beginning to pull harder. It demanded more energon and wouldn't let Blurr or Shockwave rest. Blurr often woke in the middle of the night too run down to move but with a tiny sparkling demanding energon. Due to this it became Shockwaves job to retrieve energon for his partner thus never allowing either to get much recharge time.

On the third night of this routine Shockwave was tired of it. Shockwave refused to get up leaving Blurr in an aggravated, tired state. One of the worst states to argue with a carrier. Blurr scowled "Shockwave!" he called, tapping the larger's back "Will you stop being such a cry baby and get me some energon! You did this to me, you realize, so this is all on you."

Shockwave gave an exasperated sight before sitting up and assisting his partner. "You are a lucky little thing, do you realize that Blurr?" Grumbled Shockwave, handing the carrier the cup. Blurr rolled his eyes as Shockwave continued "You could be working in mines, or be someone's servant. You could have ended up like you are now in much worse conditions."

Shockwave wrapped his arms around his bot, forcing him close. Blurr could tell Shockwave was only pointing this out due to tired aggravation. Blurr downed fourteen more cups before settling down and falling back into recharge.

They managed to sleep until morning when Shockwave got up early and left for the day. Blurr laid in the berth for a while, unwilling to move and finding no reason for it. He was tired and board with nothing to do but think, so that's what he did. He thought about the meetings, who he'd see next, he thought about his last meeting, hoping everything went smoothly with Jazz, he thought of the sparkling, what he'd name it, then he thought of Bee.

He covered his face with his hands "I'm such an idiot." He mumbled into his palms "Why would I say something like that, I'm lucky I didn't get punished more for that." His hands fell back on the berth "I wish Bee could be so lucky."

He scowled at himself and threw his legs over the side of the bed "Wishing won't get me anywhere."

Blurr drank a few cups of energon before going into the house and retrieving a data pad from the library. He selected an array of data spanning from New Cybertron Layout pads to and old history of Cybertron night life.

He read through the data searching for something that would point him in the direction of Piccolo's. He located the bar in the far southern end of the city. It was a little ways away but not hard to get to, especially for Blurr. He was thankful his data pad research was not monitored by his master or he'd be in big trouble.

After mapping out a rout in his mind to get to Piccolo's Blurr returned the data pads to the shelf. While returning to his room, running full speed, he ran smack dab into Shockwave who was standing in the hall. The large mech looked down at the little bot, now on the floor rubbing his head.

"What are you doing little one?" he inquired, putting out a hand to help Blurr up. Blurr stood up without any assistance and looked at his master confused "What are you doing here?" he asked, nearly baffled by his presence.

"I ask you first." Said Shockwave slowly, leaning down a bit.

"I was in the library, what were you doing?"

"I needed something from my office."

"I didn't know you used your office here."

"I use it more as a storage unit more than anything else."

"Oh…I did not know that…Uh, bye now." With that Blurr zipped of back to the room, slamming the door behind him and leaning against it "Well that was weird," he mumbled, going to sit on the couch "I wonder what's in his office."

While Blurr, with the instincts of an intelligence officer, wanted to check it out. Digging deep to find his instincts as a sensible bot, however, decided against the idea.

"Maybe later." He mumbled, deeper in thought. Blurr, worn out and with nothing to do, went back to the berth and fell into recharge. He ended up sleeping for the rest of the day, not even being disturbed when Shockwave climbed in next to him late into the night.


When Blurr ran into Shockwave in the hall the Decepticon found the situation slightly peculiar. While he fully realized that Blurr often used the data bank as a source of entertainment he'd never known him to be in such a hurry while in his carrier state. While it was a given that Blurr loved to run it was also clear without doubt that Blurr wanted to do nothing but sleep and drink energon and yell as Shockwave while he was carrying the sparkling. The only time Shockwave had seen his partner use his speed since he was sparked was when avoiding the former slave Bumblebee's puny attacks.

Due to his curiosity and need for information Shockwave made his way to the data library. He checked the log to see which data pad had been taken out most recently. The results intrigued him "Why would you want that little one?" he questioned under his breath, studying the data pad entries before him. Shockwave plucked the two off the shelf and began flipping through them. One seemed quite useless while the other, while slightly out of date, had everything anyone would need to know about the layout of the city they were in, and the entirety of Cybertron. He hummed with suspicion and shut down the pad. "It seems my mate has become somewhat curious lately." He mumbled, exiting the room and heading back to his main office, his processor already coming up with solutions for the curiosity problem.


The next day Blurr woke up, surprised to see that Shockwave had not awoken before him. He looked at the clock and realized that he'd risen earlier than normal, earlier than even Shockwave. Realizing, while trapped in his masters grip, that he could not slip from the berth and get ready for the day, laid his head back down but did not go back into recharge. Instead he thought, an occurrence that had become more common recently. About an hour later the grip on his waist was released with Shockwave's rise and Blurr zipped of the berth. It only took a few seconds for Blurr to shake off the morning and after those few seconds he sat on the couch clean and ready to do nothing.

Shockwave, who was still getting out of the bed when Blurr finished, stood over the blur bot for a moment before sitting down in the chair adjacent. Shockwave did not often sit considering most everything on the room besides the berth was more Blurr's size. It looked almost humorous, watching Shockwave sit in the too small chair.

Blurr stared at him a moment, wondering what he was doing before he decided to ask "What are you doing?" he inquired after Shockwave said nothing for a long while.

"I need to discuss something with you, Blurr." Stated the large mech, standing up, finding that sitting in this situation out of the question as well as ridicules. "The sparkling within you will be separating from your spark not too long from now. Due to this, in order to establish a will organized plan and emergency procedure I have made you this." Shockwave handed the smaller bot a small remote with three buttons on it, Blue, green and red. Blurr raised a brow, unsure upon what this could be. Shockwave want on to explain "This device will allow you to contact me at any time something feels wrong. The green button if for if you are not feeling well, the blue button is for when you believe it is time for a checkup and the red button is for when you begin birthing the sparkling."

Blurr looked at the remote for a moment then back to Shockwave, waiting to see if he'd say more, which he did "Only press the buttons when needed. I do not need to be interrupted for a false birth alarm, do you understand?"

Blurr nodded, grasping the small remote in his hand and thinking over the circumstances. It was almost here, the little sparkling that Blurr despised, yet felt the need to protect.

Shockwave left, leaving Blurr to his own thoughts which no longer as deep as they had been earlier that morning. Blurr, through the day, studied the map of the city again, being sure to know where Piccolo's was and how to get there.

If this was going to go smoothly, everything had to be in place

I know, this chapter is wimpy, I promise the next in line are going to blow your freaking mind.