Hello everyone! Sorry it's taking so long to update this! But I'm starting to get a bit of writers block and my job is keeping me very busy ugh.

Anyway, some cute fluffy moments going on here and a big ole' twist at the end!

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, HasTak does. I claim only Luna, her trine, the adult trine, Wavecrasher, Drizzle, DuskGlider, ShadowKisser and a bunch of other characters I can't be bothered to remember. StormStrike belongs to my brain twin and chat buddy, Mercedes Wolfcry~ She is amazing!

Thank you for all of the reviews! I hope this story continues to hold everyone's interest because we're not done yet! We still have quite a few chapters left! Keep reviewing! Thank you!

It started out like any other day at the Autobot base. The twins causing trouble, making fools of themselves for the sake of their daughter and DuskGlider. Starscream making trips to scout for energon with the others while Luna stayed at the base with StormStrike.

But then, Starscream received the one request he'd been somewhat dreading.

:Soundwave: would like to see sparkling. Knock Out: Would also like to see sparkling. Coordinates?: Starscream reluctantly sent him the coordinates and approached his new bondmate.

"No." She snapped at him before he even got a chance to speak. But how had she- "I felt it over the bond," She snarled.

Oh.

"Luna, please be reasonable," He rumbled softly. "Soundwave would never harm the sparkling. Knock Out will be there also." The femme let out a growl from her engine and glared at her bonded. "I promise, this will stay just between us. They have yet to betray me."

"If anything happens, I'm kicking you out of the berth," She growled at him. Starscream scowled at her and drew her into an embrace, hoping to sooth her. Since becoming bonded, they'd both been under a lot of pressure and the bond was grating on their nerves. They hadn't been able to figure out how to block the bond yet so their emotions and thoughts were continuously flowing over the bond.

"Get DuskGlider and let's go," He murmured gently. Luna pulled out of his arms and stalked off to get heir sparkling. Starscream flooded the bond with love and was a bit more than amused when she sent back an image of her giving him a rude human hand gesture. "I love you too," He laughed when she returned.

"Frag off," She grumbled in an irritated voice. "Ratchet, we're going to go fly with Dusk for a bit, show him the sights."

"Alright," The medic didn't even look up from his work when he said this. Starscream gave him the coordinates and he punched them in before throwing the switch and opening the ground bridge. The two Seekers walked through and Luna was a little surprised to find they were in their old meeting spot.

"Well aren't you both a sight for sore optics?" Knock Out strode forward with Soundwave, smirking gently. "And who do we have here?" He looked at the little sparkling in Luna's arms and smiled.

"This is DuskGlider," Luna told him, shifting the curious sparkling a bit as he wiggled and squirmed. "Would… you like to hold him?" Knock Out turned surprised red optics to her and nodded slowly. He took the sparkling in his arms carefully and was unable to stop the fluttering of his spark as he held the young one close.

"I've never held a sparkling," He admitted quietly, offering the tip of his claw to the Seekerling. Dusk took it with a squeak and held onto it, snuggling with it almost. "He's going to be gorgeous when he gets older."

"Don't corrupt my sparkling," Starscream scowled.

"Oh hush," Knock Out chuckled. "He's too young to really understand what I'm saying anyway."

"He has a point," Luna smirked. Knock Out held DuskGlider for a few breems before Soundwave asked to hold him. Luna was a little worried that her son would be scared of him as he was such an imposing figure and he had no face… that she knew of anyway. So it came as a surprise to them all when Dusk squealed and hugged the mech, clicking and cooing curiously as he ran his little digits over Soundwave's facial mask.

"At least somebot likes him," Knock Out snickered softly, earning what could only be a glare from the quiet spy. "So, any other surprises that you haven't told us about?"

"We're officially a bonded pair," Starscream rumbled holding Luna close.

"Congrats," Knock Out grinned.

"Query: More sparklings?" Soundwave startled them all when he spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Luna frowned at him.

"More sparklings to come?"

"From us? Not for a while," She shook her helm.

"There is another sparkling on base though," Starscream told him. "This information stays between us, got it?" The two 'Cons nodded. They weren't about to endanger any sparklings.

"Those Autobots have certainly been busy," Knock Out whistled. He took Dusk from Soundwave and held him close, cooing at him.

"I consider it a blessing from Primus that we're suddenly having all of these sparklings," Luna told them. "At least Dusk won't be alone as he grows up."

"And hopefully he'll have a trine of his own," Starscream purred, wings hitched high and proud.

"DuskGlider: would make perfect trine leader." Soundwave told them, mask flashing slightly.

"Glad you agree," Starscream grinned. The group talked for quite some time and continued to play with the ever curious and excited DuskGlider. He was a bundle of joy and trouble as they quickly learned. He seemingly enjoyed causing panic in his Creator's as he constantly found new hiding spots on or around the gathered bots.

"Starscream, I swear he gets it from you," Luna grumbled as she held Dusk in her arms, letting him feed.

"No, he gets it from you," He shot back. The two had a small glaring contest that was broken up by Knock Out.

"We've been here for quite a while," He cleared his throat, a human gesture he'd picked up. "Soundwave and I should go before Lord Megatron begins to suspect something."

"Yes, that would be best," Starscream nodded. Knock Out waved to little DuskGlider who whined and reached for him, obviously having sensed that something was going on.

"Aww, I'll see you again soon," He chuckled and hugged the sparkling gently. Dusk whined again and clung to Soundwave when the spy took him into his arms. Soundwave made a series of chirping and clicking sounds and stroked the sparklings back to calm him before he handed him back to Luna.

The two Decepticons transformed and left, leaving the little family alone.

"I hope Knock Out can keep his vocalizer shut," Starscream muttered to himself. Luna narrowed her optics and jabbed her mate when she received a flicker of his thoughts. "What?"

"Let's just go," She muttered. She told Ratchet to open the ground bridge and stomped ahead of the mech Seeker who was still very confused.

What had he done?

"Luna, what did I do?" He continued to try and coax his mate into talking as they reached the Autobot outpost.

"Mute it, Starscream," She called back as she stormed towards their quarters. DuskGlider was looking over her shoulder with an expression of enjoyment on his little faceplates and he was giving his Sire a look that said 'you're in trouble'.

Great, even his own Creation knew he'd done something to upset the femme.

"Yo, what'd you do to slag her off this time?" Sideswipe walked up to the Seeker, cocky smirk in place as always.

"Absolutely nothing!" He growled, throwing his arms up in frustration.

"You obviously did something otherwise she wouldn't be acting like this," Sides snorted.

"Leave him alone, Sideswipe," Ratchet scowled at the red mech. The frontliner grinned and ran off, most likely to go see his lover and brother. Starscream had to wonder if those three had bonded yet… "Starscream, are you and Luna still having bonding trouble?"

"What trouble we have is none of your business," He snapped. Starscream scrubbed a servo over his faceplates and groaned when he realized he was channeling his mate's emotions again.

"As your medic, it is my business," Ratchet snorted. "You two haven't figured out how to close the bond yet, have you?"

"As much as it pains me to admit it, we have not," He rumbled. "It is driving us both insane."

"It's just the same as closing a trine bond," Ratchet rolled his optics. "It's a mental barrier, Starscream, it's not that difficult. Try it." Starscream scowled but did as he was told. He focused on the tiny, invisible threads that connected his spark to Luna's and forced it closed, just as he would do to his trine in the days of old. Her emotions suddenly stopped flowing into him and his processor quieted for once. "There, was that so hard?" Ratchet couldn't resist taunting him.

Starscream glared at him and stalked off to go confront his ever moody and disgruntled bondmate.

When he got to their room she was holding DuskGlider in her arms, staring at the wall in shock.

"You… shut the bond." Luna stated slowly, turning wide purple optics towards him. "You aft!" If it hadn't been for the sparkling, Starscream was certain she would have tried to blast him.

"It's easy," He muttered. "Just like closing off a trine bond." Luna shuttered her optics a few times and her frame visibly relaxed when Starscream opened the bond again. "Try it." The femme scowled but she did as he asked and used the same method she used to close the trine bond to close the spark bond. Starscream visibly stiffened when it closed and growled when his mate only smirked.

"Now you know how I felt," She snorted. Luna got up and put Dusk in his crib before Starscream strode over and pulled her into a tight embrace. The bond opened again and both purred happily as thoughts and emotions were exchanged.

Nothing was said as they moved to rest but then again, no words were needed. Their bond said it all.

-X-X-X-

A few days later found the kids anxiously waiting to see StormStrike and Shadow. They'd been at their own base with the twins for quite some time and they'd just received a message saying they would be coming to visit.

"Can we please see Shadow?" Miko was standing in front of StormStrike who had just arrived on the base with the twins. The femme twitched her antenna and slowly lowered her daughter to the ground. She was getting better about not freaking out around the humans but she still refused to touch or be touched by them. She was still convinced that they would somehow give her some sort of disease or something. She knew better though and it was the only reason she allowed the humans to play with her sparkling.

The kids all gathered around the young femme and started trying to teach her little human games they had played as children.

"Aqua and I are going out for a bit," Strike announced once Aqua Blade and Boomer emerged from their room. Luna chuckled, knowing that Strike was taking Aqua out for 'femme time' as she liked to call it and most likely when they returned, poor Aqua would be a little less innocent than she had been when she left. Strike was not shy about giving 'advice' to her fellow femmes, especially when it came to mechs and how to tease them.

Luna hadn't been very embarrassed when Strike had done this to her as she'd been through her own adopted Carrier telling her things like that in the past so nothing shocked her any more. Most of the things she'd been told she'd already known anyway, no thanks to the femmes back on Cybertron.

"Have fun~" Luna smirked at her trine mate. Aqua merely blinked and left with Strike, not suspecting a thing. The twins shook their helms and chuckled, knowing exactly what their femme planned on doing.

"I really hope she doesn't take after her mother," June shook her head with a chuckle. "She behaves quite well," She looked at Shadow who was propped up between Jack's legs, clapping as she watched Miko and Raf roll a ball to each other. "Unlike her parent's."

"The twins were hellions but I managed," Ratchet grunted.

"Yeah, by letting us go to the Pits to fight whenever we needed to let off steam," Sideswipe smirked. "Sunny was one of the best gladiators around!"

"Couldn't touch Megatron though," He grunted. "I was never in the same league or division as him."

"Wait, how old were they when they were fighting?" June was alarmed as she looked towards Ratchet.

"A human comparison would be a teenager," He rumbled. "They grew up on the streets before I finally got them and adopted them so they knew how to fight from a young age."

"Which is why we're some of the Autobots' best fighters," Sideswipe grinned. June nodded and turned her attention back to the kids and ShadowKisser. The little femme was squealing and rolling the ball with the kids now, having finally gotten the point of the little game.

Optimus joined them a short time later with Dusk resting peacefully in his arms, clinging to his chestplates as always.

"Just like his Carrier," Ratchet commented, giving Luna a look.

"Be glad he has chosen to take up Sire's time instead of yours," She grumbled. "At least he doesn't pester you, though I would highly enjoy it if he did." Starscream only smirked at his mate's words.

The Autobots and their human companions enjoyed the unusually quiet day, thoughts of the Decepticons at the far backs of their processors as they focused their attention on the two sparklings.

DuskGlider and ShadowKisser were becoming more and more active with every passing day. Ratchet had told them that the sparklings would be completely mobile within the next Earth month, which was something he dreaded. The two were terrors already and he knew once they were mobile, it would be even worse.

"I thought they would be back by now," Boomer grumbled, as he lay sprawled out on his stomach in the main room. "I'm getting worried and Aqua blocked the bond almost an hour ago."

"Have you tried the trine bond?" Luna's wings twitched and her spark clenched when he nodded.

"Same thing." Luna immediately tried to contact her trine mate and was met with no response. The bond was completely shut down from Aqua's end.

"We haven't heard from Strike either," Sideswipe rumbled. Sunstreaker was beside him, holding Shadow protectively though everyone could see just how tense the ex-gladiator was.

"Ratchet?" Luna looked towards the medic.

"I'm running scans now but I can't pinpoint them," He grunted. "I have a lock on their last known coordinates so I would suggest we send a team to investigate."

"Bumblebee, Arcee, Bulkhead, come with me," Optimus singled them out.

"Prime, I'll go as well," Starscream volunteered himself, wings hitched up high. He had a feeling he knew where they were but he wanted to go and confirm it before he said the wrong thing and caused unnecessary panic.

Optimus nodded and turned just as the ground bridge opened.

"Roll out!" The team hurried through, leaving the others to wait and listen.

"You don't think… the 'Cons got them, do you?" Raf asked in a timid voice, as though scared the twins would turn on him.

"It's an unfortunate possibility," Ratchet sighed. They all waited in tense silence for the team to report back.

An insistent beeping sound was the only thing to pierce the silence.

"We've combed the entire area," Optimus' voice came over the speaker. "There is evidence of a struggle though no energon was spilled, at least not from Aqua Blade or StormStrike." Three relieved sighs were heard. "There is no sign of them though."

"Then they have been captured." It wasn't a question.

"Bridge us back." Ratchet did so without question and they watched as the five bots returned. The twins were shaking with rage and Boomer was stunned.

"I'll kill them!" He suddenly snarled. He turned his gaze towards Starscream and howled as he lunged towards him. "This is all your fault!" Everyone backed up as the two Seekers wrestled.

"How is it my fault?" He demanded. "I am no longer part of the Decepticon ranks!"

"How do we know that for sure?" Boomer snarled, optics white with pain and anger.

"Would I have bonded with Luna if I were still a Decepticon? Would I have gotten rid of my insignia?" Starscream pinned the younger mech with a growl. "If I were still a Decepticon, I would have taken my sparkling and left the moment he was born!" A half-truth, everyone knew, but at least it would get his point across.

"Cease fighting," Optimus and Bulkhead pulled the mech's apart then. "Starscream is not at fault." He gave Boomer a firm look when he attempted to protest. "We do not know why the Decepticons took them but we can only assume it was for information. No one knows about the sparklings outside of the base."

Luna and Starscream both felt quite ashamed when Optimus said this but they kept quiet.

:I'll speak with Knock Out and Soundwave.: Starscream soothed his mate over the spark bond. Luna gave a minute nod and focused on her adopted Sire again.

"I've just received an encrypted video message." Ratchet cut in then and typed away at the computer. "It's… from Megatron." He was clearly shocked, just as everyone else was when he told them. He opened the file and it began to play.

Megatron's imposing form was seen in what Starscream knew was the control bridge and from what they could see… it was playing in real time.

"Hello, Autobots," He sneered at them, optics glittering with what could only be described as joy. "I'm certain you are confused as to why I am contacting you."

"You got that right!" Sunstreaker snarled, glaring at the warlord.

"Ah, the Autobot twins," Megatron chuckled when he caught sight of the Lamborghini. "As out of control as always despite being – what do the humans call it? Oh yes – domesticated." The twins bristled at his words and snarled, spewing Cybertronian curses at him.

"Megatron, what is your reason for contacting us?" Optimus stepped into his line of vision then. "How did you get this frequency?"

"It would seem I have come into possession of something," He was smirking again. "Something very precious to some of your Autobots." They heard shuffling in the background then and suddenly; two forms were forced to their knees on either side of Megatron.

"Strike!"

"Aqua!"

The two femmes were a little scratched up and dirty though they did not seem to have any serious wounds but this did little to sooth the rage their respective mates felt.

"Pretty little things, are they not?" He chuckled, reaching down to stroke their helms, treating them like they were pets of some sort. The femmes both flinched and jerked away but they could do little else than that. Their weapons had obviously been stripped from them and they were in stasis cuffs; both had clamps over their wings or doorwings.

"You fragger! If you've hurt her, I'll rip your spark out!" Boomer snarled, wings high on his back as he locked gazes with his mate.

"If you wish to have your mate back still functioning, you will do no such thing," Megatron grinned. "The Seeker has been especially helpful to me," He grabbed Aqua and hauled her to her pedes by her wing tips. She bit back a cry and looked away, trembling a little. "Once given the right motivation that is." He ran his claw tips over her abdomen, his grin growing. "A Carrier will do anything for their young."

All of the Autobots felt their energon run cold when he informed them, indirectly, that he knew Aqua was carrying.

"What is it that you want, Megatron?" Optimus repeated his earlier question.

"I want my former Second," He spat, his grin now gone. "I want him and his femme as well as their spawn."

"You will not touch Silverwing," Optimus narrowed his optics.

"Give them to me and I will return these two femmes to you unharmed." That was it? They could hardly believe it, there had to be more. The video feed suddenly cut out.

"Optimus, we need to go get them!" Boomer was trembling with rage now.

"You can't seriously be thinking of handing over Luna!" The twins protested loudly.

"We are not handing anyone over to the Decepticons," He assured them. "Armed with what we now know, we will come up with a rescue plan."

The twins and Boomer reluctantly agreed. Sideswipe offered his disgruntled sparkling an energon line so she could feed and hopefully calm down.

Luna did the same for Dusk though he fussed and whined for a few breems before settling.

"We should do a trade off," Starscream suggested after hearing everyone's ideas. "There are those who would quite willingly help Luna and myself escape after all is said and done."

"They would also make sure that Strike and Aqua are cared for until the time comes for them to be returned." Luna added in from across the room.

"It is late," Optimus rumbled. "We should all get some rest and continue this conversation first thing in the morning." No one protested as they split up and went their separate ways.

"Starscream, can you take care of Dusk tonight?" Luna looked up at her mate and then looked to her distraught trine mate. Starscream instantly understood and nodded, taking their son from her so she could go and comfort her wingmate.

Luna embraced Boomer and drew him close, murmuring in Vosian to settle him. He fought for a bit before he returned the embrace and followed her to their old room.

Starscream felt a slight pang of sadness in his own spark as he watched them, wishing his own trine were around so he could lean on them again. He would never admit it aloud but he sincerely missed his wingmates, no matter how irritating they could be.

"Come, little one, let's get some sleep," He murmured to Dusk when he whined. The Seekerling scowled up at him and clicked in frustration. He was young, Starscream knew, but he was also his son. He was very perceptive and the Seeker wouldn't have been surprised if Dusk actually knew what was happening. "Everything will be alright," He trilled gently. "We'll get them back." Dusk clicked and tilted his helm before he snuggled up against his Sire's chest.

Starscream sprawled out over the berth and frowned. It felt far too big for just him and Dusk with Luna away comforting her wingmate. Starscream felt a brief flash of affection over the bond and quirked his lips up in a small smile. He returned the feeling and shuttered his optics, purring his engine to sooth Dusk and lull him into recharge. Starscream fell into recharge the moment he felt his son drop off and kept his servos wrapped around the little one protectively.

-X-X-X-

"Don't worry, we will get her back," Luna whispered, holding Boomer close. She rubbed his back and his wings, humming softly to try and calm him.

"I shouldn't have let her go out," He muttered, keening softly. "We should have made them stay closer to base."

"Stop it," Luna gave him a stern look. "You're going to exhaust yourself if you continue. None of this is your fault. We will get them back. Right now, we need to focus on the plan, alright?" Boomer looked up at her, optics shining with grief and worry. "Aqua and the sparkling are safe," She promised. "Don't worry." She sent a pulse of affection and comfort over the trine bond. Boomer returned it weakly and curled up against her. Luna nuzzled him and held him close as they lay on the berth. "Everything is going to be fine, I promise."

"Okay…" He whispered. He wrapped his arms around his leader and offlined his optics. Luna smiled weakly and offlined her own optics, hoping that her friends were indeed safe.