The Diego Diaries Part Seven

by arctapus

This is a continuation of the universe started in Diego Diaries and continued through parts two to six. The premise is a joke that led to world building. This is about family, friendship, overcoming adversity and finding the best parts of yourself. This is an adventure, a trek through the world of Transformers and its a comedy/drama. Everyone is here and if you are, too, then YAY!

185. Chapter 185

The Diego Diaries: Ho-Ho-HA! (dd7 185)

=0=Various households around the downtown area of Autobot City

"SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

=0=Jail

They sat in their cells shuttered from the world, one to each as their breakfasts were brought. It was large, varied between cuisine of Earth and Cybertron and was left by a guard with no interest in any of them whatsoever. He was ready to get off shift when the last tray was placed and his attention was elsewhere. It was a strange feeling to be invisible for all of the leadership of Sun Base. The doors closed on them and they were left to their own thoughts again.

=0=Various households around the downtown area of Autobot City

"GET UNCLE IRONHIDE ON THE MONITOR, DAD/ATAR!" -two of three mesmerized kids (The other one was hugging her atar's leg)

=0=Around the colony

They sat in their new apartment in the Crater District number 3 in City Six. The names were pending and they were going to be Cybertronian. What theirs would be called was unknown as of yet. They had arrived the orn before, had been shepherded into a new life and there were numbers to call if they needed to know anything.

Right now, a youngling mech, his mini-con bond, two tiny children, both sets of grand genitors and a friend sat on the couches and chairs as the youngling mech went through the Community Bulletin Board and all its offerings to the citizenry, showing the contents to everyone to see. It was optic opening and processor exploding. They stared at each miracle then opened another one. It would be a very amazing and wonderful first Christmas Surprise morning for all of them, newcomers from Sun Base on their first real day of freedom since most of them were born.

=0=RvIH™

"And that's how it works, Hero," Ironhide said as he stood up again.

Hero who was holding a blinking, cooing little Baby Yoda aka The Child in her arms looked ready to plotz. She smiled at him, then everyone, then him, then The Child, then him, then the ceiling, then the floor, then the …

=0=P+PR et al

"ADA! ATAR! THIS IS SO GREAT! WHAT DO WE DO!?" -Spirit

"Uh ..." P+PR

=0=The Family Tower in the downtown area of Autobot City

"DADDY! THIS IS SO GREAT! LOOK HOW HE LOOKS AT ME! LOOK AT HIM MOVE HIS LITTLE FACE AND HIS BIG EARS! HOW DOES THIS WORK!?" -Annabelle looking at her dad like he was God.

=0=Moments later

"Thanks, Ironhide." -Will Lennox, Prowl and Prime on a split screen monitor

"Don't mention it," Ironhide replied with a tiny preen.

"Ironhide … this is incredible. He's almost like a real child," Will said as he watched the tiny infant waddle after Annie who was walking around so he could.

"You said you wanted that for Annie," Ironhide said. "Hero wanted one and so did Spirit so I asked for someone who knew someone who had a friend to make them." Ironhide looked down. Hero was still hugging his leg. He petted her, then looked back at the split screen filled with faces looking at him with amazement.

"How does this work, Uncle Ironhide?" a voice from near the floor was heard to say.

Will bent down, then set Annie and her dollie on a chair to see the screen. She smiled at Ironhide like the sun. The baby turned to look at the monitor, its little face showing normal movements and his big eyes staring at him like babies do.

"Its cued to your bio signature," Ironhide said. "I sent them your DNA code, the one Ratchet keeps on file so they could program it to you alone. It will interact with others but its going to be yours predominantly. Just act like you do and it will understand. The programming in him is not only vast its incredibly proprietary, Lennox. It can't ever leave here and go to Earth and no one from Earth who wants to find out how he ticks can have him. It's been alarmed against tampering.

"When you want to do something else, just lay him down for a nap like a baby and he'll take one until you pick him up again. He also makes baby sounds. He's cute," Ironhide said with a grin.

"HE'S THE GREATEST! I LOVE HIM! THANK YOU, UNCLE IRONHIDE!" Annie said.

Spirit who was sitting in Optimus's arms holding his dollie nodded. "THANK YOU, UNCLE IRONHIDE! YOU TOLD SANTA WHAT I WANTED! WHAT A GREAT THING THIS IS!"

Everyone grinned at Spirit who was about as pure a child as anyone knew.

"Glad to do it," Ironhide said. He glanced at Prime. "This is drone tech, Prime. Top priority keeping it away from slaggers."

"Understood," Optimus said with a grin. "Thanks, old friend."

"No problem. I AM IRONHIDE! I PROVIDE LITTLE DOLLIES FOR LITTLE KIDS!"

Spirit glanced at Optimus, then Ironhide. "I thought Santa Prime did, Uncle Ironhide."

"Uh, he does. I'm just a helper. I'm Santa Ironhide, Santa Prime's helper," he said.

Spirit considered that, then smiled like the sun. "THAT'S SO GREAT! DID YOU KNOW THAT SANTA PRIME LOOKS LIKE MY ATAR!?"

Ironhide grinned. "I noticed that, too."

Spirit smiled, then Prime set him on the floor with his own grin. "Thanks, Ironhide." Their part of the screen went blank.

Ironhide looked at the humans in the other sector of the screen. "Ho-ho-ho, slaggers."

The humans laughed, thanked him profusely, then signed off. Ironhide turned around to the packed room behind him. Then he preened. "I, IRONHIDE AM THANKED!"

Huge guffaws greeted that as everyone sat down to eat breakfast together. It would be second breakfast for most but it would be good.

=0=Upstairs

Styre and Stealth sat in chairs watching the children play with their new presents. Rambler was strumming something called a ukulele and Miracle was watching him with a new dollie, a big green frog that he liked. New trains for the huge set they had in the 'train room' were in boxes beside him waiting for Optimus and Tagg to help him get them there.

Styre and Rambler along with Tagg and Optimus had played with their big train set up in the room across the apartment that was dedicated to it. They showed Styre the work shop part where they made buildings, trees and other things for the three towns the train went through. It was going to be a western type set up, enthralled as most of the Autobots were about the old American west.

Sojourner and Solus were playing with a small infant erector set, trying to use the tiny tools to build something with several wheels attached in strange places. T-Bar and Spirit were playing with the Yoda child, chasing around with him as he waddled after them cooing and laughing.

"When do you have to go back, Prowl?" Stealth asked as he held Possibility. That baby was winding down for a nap after playing madly with his new little cars in the corner by the fireplace.

"Not for about two joors, Amma," Prowl said as he moved a sword that was given to Optimus by Ravie and Tie Down. It was about fifteen feet long, had cut outs on the blade, inscriptions to the Pantheon especially Thirteen and glistened it was so shiny. He placed it scabbard and all against the wall.

"That is a magnificent blade. It's ceremonial, right? I remember seeing one carried by Zeta Sentinel Prime once," Stealth said as Miler brought him a cup of something hot and sat down beside him.

"It's ceremonial. Ravel and Tie Down of RTR Tools are Ratchet's genitors. They've decided that all of the ceremonial and battle arms that a Prime has in their arsenal will be recreated and presented to Optimus on holidays like this until he has a full set. All of the originals are either missing or in the vaults. We only bring them out when there's a reason."

"RTR Tools is a master crafting business. I had no idea that they were Ratchet's genitors," Stealth said.

"We'll go by in a few orns. Ravel and Tie Down are the best mechs. So sweet and talented. You'll love them," Miler said.

"I know its so," Stealth said. "All is changed for the better. I want to be happy here and to do something useful. The colony was a start. I want to be useful here, too."

"When you rest and get better. I heard that Styre wants to get back into broadcasting," Miler said.

"He wants to do something in that line. It's his forte. I do know that things on Cybertron were fragged up in that regard for him," Stealth said, then caught himself. "No one ever said fragged in our family. My, how the might have fallen."

Prowl grinned. "I know. Isn't it great?"

Stealth grinned for the first time. "I think it is, my little mech."

=0=Up there

They sat on the floor eating treats as they looked over their new toys. There were things they all liked including new train cars for Siphon's set. Tika and Boo were 'helping' him sort out the new tracks, ones that would wind back around and make a double figure eight for the train to run.

Sitting nearby going over a manual, Rocco studied the patterns in the book. He was going to work for a private business that made ornamental glass, stained glass and hand blown artisan glassware for both the city and export to Earth. He had shown them his samples made for an interview after brushing up on it at a crafts center. It was like falling off a bike. Once you knew, you never forgot.

He would be a professional soldier, too, but placed in the Gamma rotation given he was a single parent with small children.

The firm liked his work, a blend of traditional and modern. After school started for the kids, he would join them in Industrial Park 6, Specialty Fabrication: Glass. Siphon would be going to his third orn of school at the Pioneer School for Beginning Education located in the education tower in Metrotitan while Boo and Tika would attend their first orn of pre-school at the Circle of Light Preparatory Academy in the Praxus Business Plaza in Autobot City.

He glanced at the kids, grinning slightly. Home Healthcare and their social worker had helped him manage them and a lot of the weirdness and fear he had had dissipated. Now they came every other orn just to check in. Everyone was enrolled and organized. He had gotten the hang of infant clothing and routines. All was pretty smooth going for now. What would come later, he didn't know. For now, he was relieved and pleased. All that was missing was his family. They would have loved the little kids.

He turned back to his drawings as he continued to design an intricate stained glass window of sunrise over the Manganese Mountains.

=0=Sun Base

The Trigger flew the planet held in its containment field as it moved forward on its orbit. The data flowing in was invaluable. Everything they got helped the next project forward. Homeland was second to go. The planet's internal integrity tremored but there was none of the sloshing that had been part of Caminus when it was moved. Planets rang like a bell when moved, their structure reflecting the changes. Right now with the higher magnitude of the field generators and their mathematically precise placements, things were looking good.

When that meant the Trigger could set it free, then turn to the next planet … no one was clear yet. It flew onward with an array of science ships following. It would take a while for anyone on Earth to notice a couple of new planets around Tau Ceti where no planets previously were detected.

=0=RvIH™

They petted kids, hugged and kissed them, hugged and kissed elders, hugged and petted cows, dogs and The Child, then walked sadly out the door to go back to work. Stepping into the elevator, they went down, then joined Prowl and Prime as they stepped off, too. The entire mob of Ironhide's elders joined them as they groused out the door to return to Homeland to see what the sit-rep would be.

Behind them, Christmas Surprise carried on. It would be a swinging time in the old colony for a while.

=0=TBC 1-18-2020

NOTES:

Megatron Owes Me Money chapter 184 . 13h ago

It was then that Megatron Owes Me Money began to scream. XD

ME: BWAHAHAHAHAAHA! :D:D:D HUGS!

Leoness chapter 184 . 19h ago

*smirks* After being sent pattern "suggestions" by 8 different people, I finished crocheting a 12 inch high Baby Yoda/The Child just yesterday.

ME: OMG. There's just something about that baby. :D You are one clever individual. Eight 'suggestions'. LOL! HUGS!

Guest chapter 184 . 19h ago

Pandora:: I just wanted to if got a chance to listen to Journey of the.
Warrior Soul ?

ME: I bookmarked it on YouTube. What a great piece of music. I can see Optimus in it, too. Another theme song to play when I write. Thank you for that. I love music like that. :D:D:D HUGS!

moosekababs chapter 183 . Jan 16

Ah, at least Sun Base went well! Little Victories and whatnot. That was definitely nerve wracking, though it is a bit disappointing that they don't have time to celebrate its success. Even if it used to be done a lot, moving a whole planet without disruption is momentous! Ah well. Hopefully when all is said and done, they'll be able to celebrate it AND christmas surprise without more interruption.

I had an idea for how they could deal with the Vega... consortium? the aliens who have their tech. i can't recall their exact name. I think they could probably get something of the upper hand if they were to leave a bait ship drifting in space with not too much guard. Maybe a fake 'recollection crew' left behind just long enough to finish stripping the ship down. The aliens might engage the bait ship and send a boarding party, which could then be captured by the recollection team which, in reality, would be a bunch of hard bitten veterans. with any luck (and perhaps some cloaking) they could seize the ship (s) the aliens used to engage the bait ship, and team prime would not only have informants prisoners, they could bust down the consortium ship and see just what kind of tech, cybertronian or otherwise, the aliens have. if nothing else, it could help them understand how much of a threat the aliens really are.

Of course, all of that would only happen in a best case scenario, and i'm no prowl but im sure theres a pretty big number of things that could go wrong. :P food for thought, at least!

thanks for another awesome read! I hope you get some time to relax!

ME: I copied this whole thing in my idea files. :D I love ideas from readers. Some of my favorite stuff comes from readers. It actually got above zero today so I'm sort of flying around the ceiling. LOL! HUGS, darling. :D:D:D

moosekababs chapter 182 . Jan 14

geez. MERRY CHRISTMAS! at least they got to pull one over on faber, fuller, and machlis. hopefully this whole situation with Vergo can be ended without TOO much tragedy. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out, i suppose. :P thanks for a great read!

ME: AND BACK AT YA! Christmas always lasts through January in this story. I've done a two or three day part that took three weeks to get it all done. LOL! More to come, darling. HUGS! :D