Parings:

OptimusxMegatron

Child(s): Glacier

Ratchet

Child(s): Raf

WheeljackxBulkhead

Child(s):

Knock OutxBreakdown

Child(s):

Ultra MagnusxOC

Child(s): Strongarm, Chase

Warnings: Character death, revival, fluff, talks of interfacing, sparking, mpreg, father/son bonding, growing up, and anything else I forgot.

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers. Only Hasbro. I only own my characters. Glacier belongs to Optimus' girl.

"How you feeling?" Raf asked, looking to Ratchet from a ledge in the medibay.

"I have made a complete recovery," said Ratchet.

With the help of the Cybermatter, Cybertron had been fully restored with no rebuilding, just like what had happened when the original Omega Lock hit the Hall of Records in Iacon. The liquid had also brought back Dreadwing, Skyquake, and Breakdown along with Cliffjumper when his remains were found and roughly put back together.

"That is excellent," said Optimus, walking up. "It is time to depart to Griffin Rock to inform the Rescue Bots of Cybertron's revival, as well as to make some introductions now that they are not in danger of the Decepticons."

The members of Team Prime, human and bots, all waited by the groundbridge. The Rescue Bots, being rare and the only ones left until more were recruited, were going to be a sight for the bots, given that they didn't know they existed until about 10 minutes ago. Miko bounced around Bulkhead's and Wheeljack's pedes like child at Christmas time.

"Autobots, transform and roll out," Optimus commanded, his new form being his original Cybertronian alt mode.

The portal spiraled open and the team went through with Optimus in the lead. The small town of Griffin Rock appeared normal. That was until a malfunctioning ice cream bot flew by with the four Rescue Bots and their partners chasing it down. Heatwave finally managed to get a good hit on it with his water guns, shorting out the robot.

Optimus transformed and walked up to Heatwave, who was surprised with the rest of his team. The fire bot stared suspiciously at the mech a bit shorter than him.

"Another Autobot?" Heatwave asked.

"On the contrary Heatwave. I have news to bring and need to speak to you and your team," said Optimus.

"It's best if we take this back to the firehouse," said Chief Burns.

At the firehouse, the mechs and femme transformed and went down to the bunker. Chase couldn't hide his excitement and lunged at Ultra Magnus, giving him a big hug. Ultra Magnus returned the hug to his son, a ping in his spark at not seeing his daughter. Optimus stepped up, briefly introducing Team Prime to Heatwave's team.

"Now that introductions are out of the way, I can explain. The war has ended with Megatron's death and change," said Optimus. "During the final battle, I had fought Megatron, who had killed Bumblebee."

"AAHH!" Blades squeaked, looking to Bumblebee. "Bumblebee's a ghost!"

"No I'm not Blades, I promise," said Bumblebee. Blades poked his arm as further proof.

"The Cybermatter brought our scout back, who in turned had killed Megatron. In his final moments, Megatron tore the dark energon out of his chest and thus severing the link to Unicron. The Cybermatter purged the rest of the darkness out of him and purified his spark. I dove in after Megatron and was reverted back to my Orion Pax form," Optimus continued. "We used the Cybermatter to bring Cybertron back to life and restore it to how it was before the war. Heatwave, Chase, Boulder, Blades, it is up to each of you if you wish to return to Cybertron or remain here."

The Burns family all looked to their partners with sad looks. It would be hard to not have the bots around, especially since the Griffin Rock residences knew who they really were now. It was a tough decision to make.

"I know I speak for myself and my team when I say this. Give us some time to think about this please," said Heatwave.

"Of course, take all the time you need to discuss it with your team. In the mean time, I shall leave you to know one another," said Optimus, leaving through a spacebridge that Soundwave opened up. "I shall return later on."

Cody went up to the other children, excited to see them. Raf, being smaller than Cody but a bit older, felt more comfortable around the other. Miko went up to the other bots and started shooting off questions while Jack talked with Gram and Dani. Chase remained by his sire, updating each other on what went on.

"Hi, I'm Cody," the blonde boy introduced.

"I'm Raf," the smaller boy said. "The girl is Miko and the other one is Jack."

"Nice to meet your Raf," said Cody. "So what do you do with the Autobots?"

"I help with tech support and anything else that needs my skills. I'm good with the Cybertronian part since Ratchet is teaching me and I could understand Bee before his voice was restored," said Raf.

"Noble! Maybe I can learn something from you. I don't know much yet," said Cody.

"I guess it's easier for me since I'm the youngest kid in high school. I'll be in a college or university by the time I'm 15," said Raf.

"No way you are in high school. You're like smaller than Cody and you don't look older than him," said Kade. "I mean look how short he is."

"Knock it off Kade," Cody defended.

"It's true," Kade mumbled.

"I will have you know that my- uh Rafael is much smarter and a few grades above one his age," said Ratchet, not liking how Kade spoke about his partner. Kade backed off, leaving to go find his partner.

"Just ignore him. My brother can be a bit rude," said Cody.

"I'm used to it. I have a lot of older siblings that act that way. It's hard being the youngest in the family," said Raf.

"I know that feeling," said Cody.

~~~000

"Sir, we have decided," said Heatwave after talking with his team and the Burns family. He knew that Kade wouldn't take to him leaving, no matter how much he hid it.

"And what would that be?" Optimus asked.

"We will be staying here and helping the humans. We will also be helping out new recruits at the mainland's Rescue Bot's Academy," said Heatwave. Optimus smiled.

"A wise choice for you all," said Optimus.

~~~ three weeks later

Optimus stood in front of the gathered humans, mechs and femme of both Autobots and Decepticons from Earth. Megatron stood by his side, smiling in pride. The couple had an announcement to make.

"Fellow Cybertronians, I bring good news," said Optimus, shifting from one pede to the other. "It has been found out earlier that I am carrying the first of a new generation in this New Golden Age."

"Ratchet, what does he mean?" Raf asked from his spot on Ratchet's shoulder.

"Optimus is sparked," said Ratchet. "He is carrying a sparkling."

"But aren't they both mechs?" Raf asked, completely confused.

"Mech and mech can create a sparkling together as well as mech and femme or rarely femme and femme," said Ratchet. "We are all sparked with a gestation tank, or rather most of us. Very few don't have one or a valve, like Megatron. We have spikes and valves, except for those few, and can create that way, just like humans do. We sparkmerge to create the small one's spark, which the carrier will have attached to their spark until the middle of the first trimester or stage.

"The whole process is about 5 earth months until the sparkling is sparked or born. When the spark detaches, it travels to it's body down in the gestation chamber and that is where it will grow until it emerges from the carrier. It is like how a female of your species will give birth, but there is no after birth process until the sparkling is cut out. The frame type will determine if it is mech or femme. It isn't common for a femme to have a spike like a mech does, but it isn't unheard of. If a femme and another femme doesn't have one, then a medic can artificially impregnate or spark the chosen carrier of the couple from a donor that has given some transfluid as a donation, which helps create the sparkling by using the CNA given through the transfluid and spark merge.

"As to determine if it is a femme, it is the build of the frame. Femmes will have extended chest pieces like Arcee does that will house feeding pouches for the sparkling. Mechs also have these, but they aren't as well developed or as productive as a femme's. If a mech adopts, he can activate the feeding pouches but femmes don't need to. Mechs will have to wait days before they are able to feed from their pouches. Megatron will be able to feed his sparkling when it comes closer to the time of the sparking. His and Optimus' will naturally activate since Optimus is sparked and Megatron is the sire."

"Interesting," said Raf. "Cybertronians and humans are so similar yet different in so many ways. Hey Ratchet, do you have any sparklings?"

"Yes I do," said Ratchet, looking to the small human. "You are my sparkling Rafael."

Rafael hugged Ratchet's face the best he could with his short arms. The biggest grin glued itself to the young boy's face and didn't want to leave. The human was grateful that he had become apart of Team Prime. He had a better family than his blood family. And the grumpy medic of the team thought him as his own sparkling. It was the best day, hearing that coming from the old mech's mouth.

"I love you Ratchet," said Rafael.

"I love you too Rafael, my sparkling," Ratchet returned.