Kryptonight and Wingspan were soon leading the dozen seekers, six mechs and six femmes, home to the main citadel where the Autobot underground base was located and where the Prime would reside once construction was done. The younger seekers learned that two of the seeker mechs were sparkmates, the other four mechs were bonded to four of the femmes and two of the femme seekers were not bonded as they had been added to make sure there were an even number of mechs and femmes saved and carrying on the seekers. Krypto and Wingspan also learned that with the five bonded pairs, only one of the pairs carried their own sparklings, the other mate, all the mechs for the femme-mech pairings, carried seekerlings from other bots as they had wanted to preserve as much data as possible.
"Doesn't that bother you?" Wingspan asked, seeing how the Autobots he had grown up around be bothered by such a thing.
"No, it doesn't bother us to carry other bots' seekerlings as we knew at the time that we were put in stasis and suspended animation that when we woke, we would need diversity of codes and so we gladly were sparked with other codes so that more lines could carry on" one of the mechs explained.
"Can you tell me your names, so I can come ahead and let Optimus know who is coming?" Krypto asked.
"I am Rainer" said the mech with Golden coloration, "and I am bonded to Pearl, my femme sweetheart from my youth."
"I am Pearl" the smallish white femme with silver stripes down her wings.
"I am Nightfall" another mech stated, a mech deep blue in color. "And my mate is the femme Sunsetter"
"I am Sunsetter" The femme said, a femme with yellow, orange, red, and slight variations of the three colors.
"I am Opal" said one of the femmes who grayish coloration seemed to shimmer as she moved. "I have no mate. I joined to balance out the mech-femme balance."
"I am Starglider" the other single femme stated, who was more of a tan color. "I joined for the same reason Opal did. We are best friends from sparklinghood and had decided to do this together."
"They call me Artic Cat" another mech stated, light blue in color with white trim. "I am bonded to the mech, Snow Cat."
"I am Snow Cat" the white with silver trim mech stated. "Artic took me in from the street, as I had gotten lost. After we got to know each other, we found our sparks calling for each other. I carry our little ones while he carries another friend of ours little ones who was too weak to carry any sparklings." Krypto didn't say anything, but he had detected an ancestral link between himself and Artic and Snow.
"I am Tuner" Said a black and white mech. "My mate is Spinner, the pretty black and while femme." Krypto looked to the two. He had scanned them, both of them seemed to have ancestral links to Wingspan.
"I am Spinner" the black and while femme started. "And You, young one, remind us of one of our grandbabies" Spinner stated, pointing to Wingspan.
"I do?" Wingspan asked.
"Yes, very few seekers have black stripes like you do. Something about you reminds me of our youngest grandson, Jazzmin" Spinner stated, not knowing that Wingspan didn't recognize that name at all, but the bot was talking about Wingspan's grandmother.
"I will have to take your word for it, as that name is not familiar to me" Wingspan stated, as his mother Jazz had rarely talked about Jazz's own creators.
"I am Stunray" the last mech stated, coloration of varying shades of yellow. "And my mate is Stingray."
"I am Stingray" A spunky femme with green coloration stated. "I was named Stingray because my father told me when I was sparked, every time I touched something, it seemed to get "stung" with a jolt of current. I only later learned to control that ability."
Krypto smiled. "thank you for telling me your names, now I will inform Optimus that we are on our way."
"Please do" Wingspan stated.
"Krypto to Optimus, come in Prime"
"Prime, here, go ahead Krypto" Optimus replied, sounding kind even over the comm.
"I am returning with 12 seekers that we found in suspended animation in a seeker temple built for Primus. They have been restored and wish to see you" Optimus replied.
"I will welcome them, please tell me who I am welcoming.
"Stunray and his mate Stingray; Tuner and his mate Spinner; Artic Cat and his mate Snow Cat; Opal and her friend Starglider; Nightfall and his mate Sunsetter; and Rainer and his mate Pearl" Krypto replied.
"I can tell some of those names, but please do tell, how many mechs and how many femmes?" Optimus asked just to be sure.
"Six mechs and six femmes, five bonded pairs and two that are just friends" Krypto replied.
"And all sparked?" Optimus asked.
"yes" Krypto replied.
"Remember, Krypto, you can't fly fast when they are in that condition. Fly slower as too fast may harm the little ones they carry. I will see you and them when they get here. Optimus out."
The seekers were amazed at hearing that. They knew it, but hadn't expected the current Prime to know. "Forgive us, my friends, we hadn't meant to fly too fast" Wingspan stated, having overheard as well.
"You haven't been flying too fast, Krypto has made sure to keep a safe pace" Nightfall stated. The others agreed. They carefully made it to the citadel where the base was. They weren't surprised to see an underground base, as after all, their whole citadel had been built underground even though they were flyers. The fourteen seekers soon landed and headed in, having no idea the shock in which two of them were to find upon entering the base, as they had no idea Jazzmin's only surviving son lived in this base. The seekers just hoped that they would be able to live in peace in the citadel where they had been found.
