Author's note. Hee, I've decided to do chapter names for this chapter, I hope you all like them. Feel free to suggest some to me, they must begin with a character name though, and follow the format that's shown.

Also, the Decepticon who the twins hugged is revealed in this chapter. I think you'll all be surprised when you read who it is.

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Chapter two: Ratchet Stupefied.

Ratchet had known there was trouble the moment he'd gotten a call about something in Wheeljack's lab exploding. And the bit that somebody had been injured, though not fatally, was even worse. These calls always ended in a bad processor ache for him.

He sighed, getting up from his desk and making his way into the main part of the Med Bay. Apparently, he wasn't actually needed at the scene so he could easily prepare his Med Bay for whatever mess Wheeljack had created.

He checked his examination berth, yes, it was nice and sterile. No thanks to those blasted twins who were in here either to cause mischief or they'd gotten injured. If this kept up, he was showing everyone that tape of when they'd hugged Shockwave.

Ratchet chuckled evilly, that had been the first and only they'd captured the faceless Guardian of Cybertron.

Ratchet had been quite young at the time, a fact the little demons from the Pit always denied. But he'd been horrified when he'd arrived to check up on Shockwave and found those twin terrors crawling all over him, trying to hug and kiss him. He honestly couldn't move for several breems.

The purple Mech who was receiving this unexpected attention was just sitting there, not doing anything. He eventually noticed Ratchet and spoke in a well bred voice full of amusement.

"Are these...curious Sparklings yours?"

"Thankfully no," Ratchet had said automatically. "Those two are little menaces."

Shockwave had chuckled as he'd stroked the head of the little yellow one.

"Really? I'd never have known that."

"You will," Ratchet said darkly as he tried to coax Sunstreaker and Sideswipe to come to him. It seemed they'd slipped through the Energon bars, though how they'd done that without getting burned, he'd never know.

Of course, the little monster ignored him, preferring to cuddle their new friend. Shockwave had chuckled again, and picking them both up came over to the bars, set them down and then walked back to his berth.

Ratchet had quickly deactivated the bars to grab them and then quickly reactivated them again. Shockwave didn't move, just stared as Ratchet hoisted them into his arms. Both where grousing at being taking away but he didn't pay that any mind.

"Thanks for watching them," the young Medic said ruefully.

"Anytime," the Decepticon had said smoothly.

"Anytime."

Ratchet chuckled evilly in the present. What he'd forgotten at the time was that there was a security camera pointing right into Shockwave's cell. When he did remember, he took a copy of the tape, just to have proof that even Decepticons could show kindness.

Later, it had become a handy bit of blackmail for the twins who lived to drive him to an early grave.

But anyway, he had to focus on the here and now, he had a patient to prepare for. He did another quick check and was satisfied to see that everything was where it should be and nothing was missing. So he quickly sterilised his hands, and waited for the arrival of his newest patient.

There was presently a sound of approaching footsteps and he braced himself for a bit of shouting. But when they finally entered and he saw what they were carrying, his jaw dropped.

"Whuuuuh?"

Wheeljack's lab.

Spike groaned softly as he came to. He was still lying on the ground and he could hear voices above him. He felt, quite frankly, awful. His limbs were heavy and he had a strange buzzing in his ears.

"Primus, Wheeljack, what have you done?"

"Ratchet's going to kill you."

"I can fix this, I can fix this."

What were they talking about? Was it about him? But apart from aching all over, he felt fine, nothing bad had happened. He decided now would be a good time to open his eyes.

He did this and blinked up at Autobots surrounding him. They all fell silent as they realised he was awake. As well as Wheeljack, he could see Perceptor, Trailbreaker and Ironhide staring down at him.

For some reason, they all looked rather nervous.

"Hey, guys, what's up?" Spike asked but for some reason all he could hear was a chirp.

"It's alright little guy," Ironhide said soothingly as he bent down to look at Spike.

"Everything's going to be fine."

Spike frowned at this, what were they talking about? And that's when he glanced down his body and squeaked in shock. He just couldn't believe what he was seeing.

He had been transformer...into a transformer!

His body was a combination of pale blue and yellow with some white highlights. He was still pretty small but bigger than before. In transformer terms, he was now the size of a toddler or what he imagined would be toddler sized.

His limbs started to shake, why had this happened? How had it happened?

But that answer wasn't hard as he glanced over and saw Wheeljack's broken invention lying innocently a few feet away. Spike could've groaned at loud, he couldn't believe this had happened. Instead, his bottom lips started to tremble as he suddenly felt like crying.

"Hey, hey, it's okay," Ironhide said softly, reaching for Spike and scooping him into his arms.

Spike cuddled into the warm armour, not feeling happy about this at all. He didn't like that his body had changed and he liked it even less that he felt so sad. His emotions just felt so raw, he couldn't seem to control them.

"Let's take him to Ratchet," Trailbreaker suggested gently.

Ironhide nodded and all four Mechs turned and headed for the Med Bay. The whole way, Spike whimpered and clung to the red Mech carrying him. It seemed a long time until they reached the Med Bay, even though Spike knew it wasn't that far away from the labs.

He saw Ratchet turn to sigh at then but then the Medic froze. His jaw dropped and he simply went.

"Whuuuuh?"

This made Spike giggle which came out as a chirp. Ratchet looked ready to crash at this but somehow he composed himself. In a shaky voice, he asked.

"What happened?"

"Well, ya see," Wheeljack began as Ratchet's expression became one of anger.

"I was working on my latest invention when Spike came to visit."

Ratchet's optics seemed to bulge with anger.

"And well, these was an accident," Wheeljack continued sheepishly. "And my invention fell and shot out a ray which hit Spike. And well, did this to him."

They all stared at the Sparkling with large turquoise optics. He was small so and delicate looking. All of them were still shocked at the sight of him, they hadn't seen a Sparkling in so many Vorns.

"Think he remembers us?" Wheeljack said softly.

Remember them? Of course he did, just because his body had changed didn't meant his memories had gone. He tried to tell them this but it only came out as chirping.

"What are we going to tell his creator?" Trailbreaker now said making Spike fume.

Why were they treating him like this? Like he couldn't understand them, like he was just a baby.

He started chirping loudly in indignation but this just made them awe.

"Aw, ah think the little guy's hungry," Ironhide said with a laugh, taking him to the examination berth.

As soon as he was on it, he pushed himself up so he was sitting Buddha style on it. Everyone grinned stupidly as him as Ratchet scanned him. He scowled at this, not happy at all.

"Well, everything seems okay," Ratchet finally said. "He's a normal, healthy Sparking for all intents and purposes. But he does need a drink, could you watch him while I make it up?"

"Sure Ratchet," Ironhide said with a smile and Ratchet went over to a cabinet.

He had honestly never thought he'd have to use any of this but they really did have a Sparkling on their hands. Sparklings couldn't consume pure Energon, their systems couldn't handle it. So Ratchet had to create a special formula for him.

As he did this, the others watched the little Sparkling who was staring around the room as though he had never seen it before. In fact, Spike was just making use of his new optics which gave him a different perspective on things.

Unfortunately, this made him look as though he didn't remember he used to be a human.

"What are we gonna tell Prime?" Ironhide asked after a while.

"Oh no," Wheeljack groaned. "He won't let me continue with my experiment when he hears about this."

"What was it you were working on?" Perceptor asked curiously and Wheeljack immediately answered.

"A way to turn Decepticons into Sparkings."

They all stared at him in shock, even Spike. Finally, Ironhide burst out.

"Why in Primus's name would you want to do that?"

"So we wouldn't have to kill them or imprison them," Wheeljack said softly. "You know Prime almost dregs the day we win because then he'll have to decide what to do with them all."

"And I just thought...if they were Sparklings, they couldn't hurt anyone. And maybe we could care for them and they'd grow up good."

He gave a helpless shrug.

"Just an idea," he mumbled as they all looked thoughtful.

Then Ironhide smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"And it ain't a bad one," he said softly. "Ah know Prime would love it if we could do that. Give em all a proper second chance. Ya never know, maybe that's all some of em need."

"Yeah," Wheeljack said softly, but sounding much happier.

At that moment, Ratchet came back over holding a bottle filled with a purple substance.

"All done, now we just have to get him to eat."

Spike grumbled slightly but he was curious as to what Energon tasted like. So he eagerly started clutching for the bottle with his little hands, making everyone chuckle.

"Heh, someone's hungry," Ironhide chuckled as Ratchet carefully held the bottle near Spike's mouth.

The little Sparkling grabbed hold of it and started to suck eagerly. It tasted very sweet but in a good way and he was soon trying to suck harder. So much so that Ratchet started putting his back.

"He'll need burping, otherwise he'll have trapped air the way he's sucking," he said with a smile.

It did his Spark good to see another Sparkling again.

"Ah'll do it," Ironhide said, he seemed very taken with the little one.

"I think I'd better be heading off if you don't need me," Perceptor said with a small smile as Spike finished his drink.

"Me too," Trailbreaker added as Ironhide lifted Spike up and leaned him against his shoulder, patting his back gently.

Spike hiccupped and then burped loudly. Thankfully, he didn't sick up and they were able to lay him on the table again. Spike glanced at the two retreating Autobots, it made him wonder how the others would react when they saw him.

To be continued.

How does everyone react? Find out next time, remember, I need suggestions. Until then.