I am very happy that all of you have taken to this fic. I was a little worried about it at first but now I think that it is going to be as good as my other ones.
I know you are all very eager to know what is going to happen so lets get going.
The drive back to the base had taken twice as long as it normally did, everyone was driving to match the speed Ironhide was driving at and he made sure to keep it under the speed limit so nothing unexpected would happen. While Optimus and Ratchet had no problem dealing with the slow and steady pace Bumblebee was having a hard time of keeping to it. He was meant to go fast both in his robot form and his alt form so going slow was really hard for him. By some form of miracle they where able to make it back to the base without trouble, they where waved in by the guard and made there way quickly to Ratchet's med bay.
As soon as they entered Ratchet transformed and pulled the tarp off of Ironhide's truck bed, the small body was still there looking much like it had when they left Will's house. Gently he picked up the small form and placed it on the berth in the middle of the room, he started to scan it with everything he had making sure that it was alright and safe to on line. The scans broke down the body and took a detailed copy of its energy signature, there was something a little off about it. The energy was higher then normal for a sparkling, other then that he didn't find anything wrong with it.
He looked up at the others once he was finished.
"Everything seems to be fine with it although its energy is higher then normal." He told them.
"Will that cause problems?" Optimus asked.
"No, I don't believe so. But we will not know for sure until he on lines" Ratchet said.
With that he began to connect cables to the body so that he could give it the jump it needed to come on line for the first time. He also made sure that there where several cubs of low grade energon that they could give to it when it woke up.
"Everyone ready?" He asked.
Seeing them all nod there heads he looked at the sparkling and flipped the switch that would send a controlled amount of power into the small body. The lights dimmed a little and the body shook as systems began to turn on, a high pitched whine came from it as the optics lit up. They where bright blue like all the Autobots optics where and it started to wiggle around on the table. Ratchet flipped the switch again ending the flow of power to the body. The sparkling continued to wiggle moving its arms and legs every way it could and trying to lift its head up, Ratchet moved over to it and quickly took the cables off it. He then grabbed one of the cubs and poured a very small amount of the pink fluid into the open mouth of the sparkling.
It was still for a moment as it drank what had been given to it and soon it was lifting its hands up wanting more. Giving what it wanted Ratchet poured another small amount into its waiting mouth, this continued for a while and when it was over there where three empty cubs and one full and happy sparkling. Ratchet sighed and looked up at the others who where watching with wide optics.
"His tank is full and he should be calm for a while." Ratchet told them.
As if wanting to prove him wrong the sparkling started to let out a high pitched whine that could have made even Megatron stop and want to comfort it. Ratchet looked the sparkling over trying to find the source of its discomfort, when he couldn't find anything that would explain why it was crying he was forced to remember something very important about sparkling's.
"This could be very bad." He said.
The other bots in the room stepped closer so they could hear and talk with Ratchet over the increased crying of the sparkling.
"What is the problem?" Bumblebee asked.
"Like with all new sparkling's they need the comfort and warmth of there creator's spark, with out it they will become more irritable and nothing will be able to keep them from expressing there discomfort." Ratchet told them.
"But he doesn't have a creator!" Ironhide said.
As soon as Ironhide had finished talking the sparkling stopped crying and started reaching for the source of the voice. They all looked at the Sparkling with wounder.
"What happened?" Bumblebee asked.
"I... don't know." Ratchet confessed.
He moved his hand closer to the sparkling but it rolled over to get away from the medic and started to whine again once it had stopped moving.
"It won't let me touch it. The only one a sparkling will let handle it is one of its creators." Ratchet said.
"Again, it doesn't have any creators." Ironhide said firmly.
Like the last time the sparkling stopped its crying and tried to move closer to the the voice. Ratchet's optics went wide as an idea came to him.
"Ironhide... Try and pick him up." Ratchet said.
Ironhide gave him a look like he was crazy.
"You can't be serious." He said eying the sparkling.
"I have an idea, just see if he will let you touch him." Ratchet said again.
Letting out a huff Ironhide moved his hand out to the small sparkling. Everyone was surprised when Ironhide was able to place his hand on the sparkling's chest and even more so when the sparkling wrapped its arms around the hand holding it tightly to himself.
"It thinks you are one of its creators." Ratchet said amazed.
"No, that's not possible." Ironhide said and tried to take his hand back.
The sparkling however wasn't letting go of the hand and Ironhide was trying hard to get it to let go without hurting it. All the while the little one clicked and chirped happily like the whole thing was a game. Finally with a sigh Ironhide let the sparkling keep his hand. It began to play with his fingers and even tried nibbling on the tip of one of them.
"Hey cut that out." Ironhide said ruffly.
The sparkling gave a sad chirp and started to make sniffling sounds like it was going to cry again.
"Ironhide, you must be gentle with him. He is only a sparkling he does not know any better." Optimus chided the black mech.
Ironhide mumbled something to himself and looked away.
"Wait! Look." Bumblebee said suddenly.
Everyone looked back at the sparkling and saw that it was holding out its arms to Optimus. Blinking in surprise Optimus brought his hand down to the sparkling and watched as it latched onto him. Bringing his other hand down he gently picked up the sparkling and held it to his chest, it clicked happily and snuggled deeper into the large chest right where the spark was.
"Amazing! It thinks you are also its creator." Ratchet said watching the whole thing.
Optimus looked down at the sparkling that was holding so tightly to his chest.
"I don't understand Ratchet how could this little one think that Ironhide and I are its creators?" Optimus asked.
"I am not sure, I am still not even sure how he came to be in the first place." Ratchet said. "Without the AllSpark there shouldn't be anymore sparklings and this one was just sparked last night."
"Could some part of the AllSpark survived beyond the shard that Optimus found?" Bumblebee asked.
"If it did I don't think it would have had the power to create a brand new spark from nothing it would have had to..." Ratchet stopped as another crazy idea came to him.
"Yes Ratchet?" Optimus asked.
"It... it would have had to have the help of an already existing life force, it would have needed to use the life force of another for the spark to be formed." He finished.
Everyone looked down at the sparkling that had started playing with the parts on Optimus's chest.
"An existing life force? Would that include a human?" Ironhide asked.
Ratchet nodded his head. "On this planet I think that a human would have been the only being that could power the sparking." Ratchet said.
"Sam!?" Bumblebee said.
"It makes seance. He is nowhere to be found and this sparkling was found in the room he was staying in." Ratchet said.
"So is he... is he still in there?" Bumblebee asked sounding sad.
"There is no way of knowing until he develops more." Ratchet told them.
"What do we do then?" Ironhide asked.
The sparkling chirped and wiggled in Optimus's grasp as it tried to get to Ironhide. Slowly but reluctantly Ironhide took that sparkling and held it to his chest where it began playing with his parts too.
"We take care of him, like true creators would." Optimus said.
The sparkling chirped and hummed happily as it explored the black armor that was in front of him.
I am not happy about this chapter... Not about how it turned out, I think it worked out great. I am just upset that it its not longer, I like have long chapters in my fic and this is barely even 2,000.
Oh well next one will be longer I promise. I hope this was as good as the first one was.
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