So we are at over 10,000 views for only being 20 chapters in! Also yaaaaaay SIDES! Whoop whoop! Both of them are dating her now and it's awesome! I think we're due for a little Sides/Clare fluff/smut. So here it is! There is also some awkward physical exams in this one! Poor Clare! You have been warned! I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS! I also want to thank Izzy-dragon-rider for helping me with something big in this chapter! You'll know it when it happens hopefully! If not I'll make a mention at the end! Also in case anyone hadn't noticed this is not taking place in 2007, it's 2014-2015 at this point.

(Clare's POV)

Almost a week had gone by since I had cussed out Sides and Sunny in the med bay. It was now the Friday after and I was hanging out with Sides while Sunny was out on patrol. We were in the twins room laying on the berth with me sprawled out on Sides' chassis comfortably. I rubbed at his chest plates lazily making him purr.

"Christmas is coming up soon." I murmured.

"What's a Christmas?"

I sat up on my knees so that I was staring down at him. Sometimes I just expected the bots to have researched human hollidays and stuff. Not very practical when they were fighting a war I know. "Christmas is a holliday that takes place every year on December 25th. It's where humans give each other gifts to show that they care for each other."

He perked up. "Presents?"

"Yes presents. We give them to people we care about."

Sides sat up and cupped me in his servos. "Do I get something?" He looked so excited.

I giggled. "Yes of course! What do you want?"

His optics widened and flashed with his mounting spazziness. Yes spazziness. "I want the Evil Within!"

"That new game that came out a few months ago?"

"Yeah."

"Ok I'll get it for you but you can't get it until Christmas!"

Sides pouted. "What? Why?"

I put my servos on my hips and gave him my 'stern look' as he had dubbed it. "Because you have to wait until Christmas morning to get your present! It's tradition!"

"But that's like two weeks away!"

"Yeah I know. But the wait will make you appreciate the gift more! Besides I have good news!"

"What?"

"I have two weeks off from school starting this next Friday and I'm going to come stay here for most of it!" I was actually really looking forward to spending winter break on base! As sad as it was I already had a list of things I wanted to do with the twins and my creators!

"Really? You're going to stay for two weeks? Have you told Sunny yet?"

"Yes to the first question and not yet to the second. I plan on telling him when he gets back."

Sides gave me the cat ate the canary grin. "Prank spree?"

I leaned up and stopped literally a breath away from his lips. "Maybe."

He closed the distance and delivered a firm yet gentle kiss to my lips our lips moving in sync at an unhurried pace. I was content to just kiss him leisurely all day long, just as I was content to do the same to Sunny whenever the opportunity arose.

Their lips were so warm and firm against my smaller ones... I took the initiative and lapped at his bottom lip to gain entry into his mouth. He opened for me allowing me to slip inside and lap at his glossa. His taste was metallic and sweet with a hint of spice, and I explored every inch to gather as much of his flavor as I could. A soft moan rumbled in my own chassis, echoed by his loud growl.

He flipped the situation by forcing me back into my own mouth so that he could slide his glossa in and return the treatment that I had given him. Heat shot straight through to my valve. Sparks danced over my plating.

And he noticed. He noticed and purred. Oh the sound of it drove the heat in me higher.

I pulled back before things could get even more heated.

No sooner had I done that then he was back on me making me squeak in surprise. He turned us so that I was laying on the berth with him propped up over me. Which let me tell you was intimidating when he was like three times my size.

We separated so that he could trace my frame with kisses and gentle touches from his servos. I bit back the mewl that wanted to escape as sharp blue sparks danced over my frame. Heat was building in my abdomen growing with every inch he explored.

I was starting to get nervous since he was moving down towards my valve, licking and nipping, glossa sliding into the spots where protoform shone through. A moan did escape me when he hit a sensitive spot near my apex. "Sides I don't think this is a good idea."

"Why...not?" He mumbled between kisses and licks.

"Because I'm a scared little virgin who's not used to being touched. It took Sunny almost three months to get a hand job from me."

He paused and looked up at me. "A hand job...you mean a servo job?"

"Y-yeah."

"Who says that you have to touch me? Why can't I just touch you?"

Oh Primus! Here we were with him splayed out over my abdomen inches from my apex, with him having the intention to go lower...and I was resisting. As Sunny had shown me their touches could be pleasurable beyond belief...

But the physical gratification wasn't what it was all about. I needed to feel comfortable with them to feel secure with them touching me. The problem was that I did feel comfortable with them. But I wasn't sure if I loved them or not and love was important to me when it came to proceeding into something like this. Not only that but I wanted them to feel love for me when they were touching me. How could I be sure that after such a short time they felt anything strong for me at all?

I shifted my legs slightly closer together, instinctively knowing that if he wanted to do something this pathetic resistance would not stop him. "Sides I just...I'm not the type to do these kinds of things on a whim. You and I have only been dating for less than a week."

"So? If I care about you why does it matter?"

My spark skipped a beat. What he said warmed me from the inside out even if it did not seem feasible. "You haven't even been with me that long."

"Sunny has and our emotions are shared, and fueled by each other. The depth of emotion he feels for you I feel as well."

What exactly did that mean? Well I knew what it meant...that Sides felt what Sunny felt. But did that mean that Sunny felt something strong for me? Was't it too soon? From what I had heard from girls in school guys only claimed to love or care strongly so soon when they wanted to screw around. Sides and Sunny weren't like that though I was sure of it.

"Sides...I don't really know what that means. I mean I do but does it mean that you actually care about me? Or does it mean that you just really like me?"

He cocked his helm at me. "Aren't they the same?"

"No. You can like someone and not really care about them. But when you feel something strong for them it really matters. Like me, I care about you two, I don't just like you guys."

He crawled back up so that he was face level with me. "You do?"

I blushed and averted my optics. "Mm hmm. If I didn't I would never have let Sunny touch me." Something soft pressed against my neck.

"We care about you too...even if Sunny won't admit it verbally. That's why he's so possessive of you because that's how he shows that he cares." He mumbled against my neck.

"I know. I like that he's possessive of me."

He hummed against my neck before licking it. "Now you have to deal with two possessive mechs."

I couldn't help the mewl that escaped me. Apparently my neck was very sensitive and the way he was suckling on the cables wasn't helping. "Possessive and jealous mechs?"

"Yes." He vacated my neck to crawl back down to my thighs. Hitching his servos between each leg he spread them.

"Sides!" I tried to clamp them back together but he was stubbornly holding them apart. My spark sped up in equal parts panic and excitement. The latter surprised me but I was helpless to stop it. "Sides I-I don't know if I'm ready."

"For what?"

"To...well what do you even want t-to d-do?"

"Lick your valve."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth I felt my jaw drop. He-he wanted to go down on me? Oh my God, Primus, KLKJLNLKNLKJHLKNHKJDALKJSDKJ! Who would have known that this mech had a lick fetich?! And how was I supposed to respond? My body wasn't rejecting the idea but my processor sure was't convinced!

He offered me a reassuring smile after he noticed my internal struggle. "Unless you don't want me to."

I gulped. "I-I don't know. I've never..." Oh Primus these mechs were going to be the death of me! Now all I needed was for Sunny to come in and insist to join in!

"How about this? If it feels good and you like it I'll keep going. If you get scared or you don't like it I'll stop no questions asked."

My breathing sped up as my abdomen tightened. Something wet started pooling between my legs.

Sides grinned. "I can smell that lubricant spark..."

Oh hell! Fucking fragging hell in a fragging pit! He could smell it?! Why did the knowledge of that mortify me?! I opened my mouth and just started blabbing. "Umm does it...like stink? Oh why did I even ask that? It probably does. Umm what if it tastes bad? Oh hell it probably does! I can't!"

Sides rumbled out a laugh. "It smells sweet and it probably tastes even better."

My jaw dropped so fast that I swear my joints cracked. OH WHATFUKAKSCNLKANDKJSCNLKS?! It tasted good?! What the heck was wrong with him? Everyone that I had ever heard talk about it said that girl juice tasted bad.

"So can I lick it all up or not?"

I couldn't help it...I passed out cold. The last thing I saw was his startled face peering down at me in a panic.

I faded in and out for who knows how long; everytime I gained some semblance of consciousness Sides' face was right over me, mouth moving though I could not discern what he was saying. After roughly half a dozen in and out moments I finally came to completely.

"Clare! Clare!" Sides' voice was barely distinguishable.

He moved to prop me up. "Uhhh what happened?"

"You offlined temporarily. Are you ok?"

I passed out? Why? "What happened?"

"Uh I asked to-you know what? Never mind. All that matters is whether or not you're ok!"

I lifted a servo to my fuzzy helm to steady myself while I tried to recall what had happened. Sides kept asking me if I was ok but I hardly paid him any mind. Until I suddenly remembered what had caused me to faint.

My helm shot up. "YOU ASKED TO LICK MY CROTCH?!"

At the same exact moment I said that the door slid open.

We both turned towards the door where Sunny was standing wearing a frown. "He asked to do what?"

Sides nervously rubbed the back of his helm. "Uhhh I asked to lick her valve and she fainted."

"Why am I not surprised?" Sunny moved into the room and hopped onto the berth we were sitting on. He allowed me to scramble onto his lap where he cupped me protectively. "So you went offline because Sides asked to perform oral interface on you?"

Heat shot straight to my face.

"Holy slag her entire face is blue!" Sides snickered.

"SUNNY!" I shrieked. "HOW COULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT SO CASUALLY?! IT-WHEN HE ASKED ME THAT I WAS FREAKING MORTIFIED!" Thankfully I caught myself before I mentioned that I was severely aroused before I blacked out, because somehow I got the feeling that admitting that would only incite Sideswipe's perverted tendencies more. So I kept it to myself.

"I bet you were."

"So why did you say that if you knew how I would react?!"

"Because I like seeing you flustered and embarrassed. It arouses me."

My jaw dropped as I spluttered. "WHAT?! YOU GET A STIFFY OFF OF SEEING ME FLOUNDER?! THAT'S SOME SERIOUS SADIST SHIT RIGHT THERE!"

He cocked his helm and pushed me to lay back on his lap. The action made me squeak, in turn making both him and Sides smirk. "I didn't see you complaining that day in your room baby. I bet if I touched you again you'd like it."

As if to tease me one of his servos slid down to slide across my valve covering. I tried not to make a sound to encourage him, I really did but against all of my restraint I whimpered and it made me want to smack myself in the face repeatedly. WHY DID I HAVE TO ENCOURAGE NOT ONLY HIM BUT SIDES?! NEITHER OF THEM NEEDED HELP BEING PERVS!

Sunny chuckled, the sound sending shivers down my spinal struts. He repeated the action eliciting an even louder mewl from me. "See? You like it."

Sides leaned over and licked at my chassis before I could deny that statement. Which would have been futile might I add?

His glossa hit protoform through the breaks in my armor making me arch and moan. "Th-this isn't very fair! Double teaming isn't-" A soft snap and a rush of air between my legs had me gaping like a fish. I was gonna faint again! I was gonna faint again! Too hot! Too hot!

A firm digit started stroking at me. I moaned and sqeauled and bucked, whether it was to try and get more or to get away I think it was somewhere in the middle. It felt good but my mind wanted to keep fighting it, or fighting having them both on me at the same time. It was like a mental and physical overload. Literally.

A soft wet glossa pried at my chassis in time with Sunny's movements. Bastards!

They kept time with each other forcing the sensations to build until I was beside myself with pleasure. Moans and whimpers the only sounds that I could make. My body shaking and bucking at the digit prying at me but never entering me. Even in my hazy mind I was thankful for that because in no way was I prepared for that level of touching.

I was so lost that all I could focus on was the feelings being evoked.

Up until I finally hit that intense overload that had me arching with a scream. Nothing mattered to me as the sensations overcame me turning me into some sort of rabid animal. I bucked like mad into the digit between my legs. My frame sparking intensely delivering a surge of pleasure to every single receptor simultaneously.

It was too much. The sensation was too much for me. Like a flood drowning me.

For the second time that day I passed out.

When I awoke later my HUD informed me that it was 5 o'clock in the afternoon meaning that I had been out for roughly two hours. I lazily panned my optics around me only to discover two frames sprawled out on either side of me.

I thought that they were in recharge or something but as soon as I moved both sets of optics snapped open. And then they smirked those crazy sexy smirks at me. The ones that made my abdomen clench and made me want to faint again like a rabid fangirl.

A red servo reach out to touch my chassis drawing my attention down to my exposed protoform. Oh my freaking Primus he had stripped my chest armor off! And now he was fondling me! "Umm..."

"You faint a lot you know that right?"

"You were the one that made me faint Sides! What part of poor little virgin mind do you not understand? How else do you expect me to react when you ask to lick my femme parts?"

He grinned. "Well preferably I would like for you to lay down and spread your legs so that I can partake in that which I so crave. But we can work on it until you get more used to it."

"You dirty little lick whore!"

"Lick whore? Is that a compliment?"

I flushed angrily. He was sooo making fun of me right now! "No! Where is my armor anyways?"

A gold servo lowered my armor down to the berth in front of me. "I don't know why you want to cover yourself so much." Sunny said offhandedly. "You have great curves for being so small. A nicely endowed chassis and an aft that won't quit."

In an astrosecond I had my armor back on though it did nothing to hide my embarrassment. "Whores! You two are such hos! First you perv out on me constantly! Then Sides offers to lick my crotch and I faint! Then I wake up and the first thing that you two do is double team molest me! If I didn't li- AUGHH! SHADDUP!" WHY MUST I SAY STUPID THINGS ALL OF THE TIME?!

"It's not our fault that you like it and that you're so receptive to even the smallest touch. Not gonna complain, it was hot." Sides complimented with a sly grin. He turned and propped himself up on an elbow facing me.

"Well duh I'm receptive! I'm a virgin!" Might as well just permanently blush in advance before entering a room with one or both of them. If only I could blush on command it would put them off from teasing me just to see it.

"Yeah and if I'm remembering correctly I believe Sides has said before that being a virgin equates to being hot. It means we get to teach you all the little tricks and pleasures of the body."

I whipped in Sunny's direction. "You're just as pervy as he is!"

He snorted. "Of course I am."

'I'm going to be destroyed!' Of course I kept that realization to myself so as not to give them anymore fuel to tease me with. "Lust sick puppies!"

Both of them grinned. "We're mechs."

I huffed. "How am I supposed to respond to that?"

Sides leaned into my face grinning boyishly. "You say how much you appreciate how talented and attentive we are."

"I appreciate how talented you are at molesting me. Now give me a warning next time will ya?"

"No promises." Sides...

Sunny froze at the same moment that he opened his mouth to say something to me. A look of aggravation came to his features relatively quickly. He blinked. "We have to go and see Ratchet for our vornly check up. He said not to even attempt hiding or else he would make our physicals even worse."

Sides shuddered and clutched at me. "I don't want to go!"

"Do you think I do? The last thing I want to do is have a probe shoved up my aft."

Sunny's words made me choke. "HE WHAT?!"

They both gave me an uncomfortable look. "Well we have to get our afts probed. Not fun let me tell you."

"Why? All you do is blow exhaust out of it in your alt mode!" Or umm take it up the aft if you were into mec on mech. I kept that to myself.

"Exactly. It could get backed up and if it does it can cause a whole pit of a lot of problems. So we have to get it checked by Ratchet every few earth months. Unfortunately the vornly physical happens to coincide with it this time."

"Please tell me that I don't have to do anything like that." I gulped. If Ratchet came anywhere near my aft with a probe I was going to flip shit and maim him.

Sunny looked at Sides warily. "Well since you don't have an alt mode like we do I think you can get away with not having it done. But since you are a carrier you have to have a valve exam every stellar cycle or so."

My optics bugged out. "WHAT?! NO WAY IS ANYBOT COMING NEAR MY CROTCH LIKE SOME WICKED VERSION OF THE SAW GUY WHOSE NAME I CAN'T REMEMBER AT THIS MOMENT!"

"Does that include us too?" Sides pouted.

"NO! YES! I DON'T KNOW!"

Sunny patted my helm to comfort me. "Look at it this way Clare, you don't have to do it-" He cut off suddenly optics dimming. If possible he grimaced even worse than before as he blinked down at me. "Ummm."

In an astrosecond I was off of the berth and running for the door like a friggin animal. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO! NOT HAPPENING! NOT HAPPENING!"

I activated my disruptor and ran as fast as I could. Somehow I ended up in a storage room for unused parts like engines, and headlights and stuff. I swiftly locked the door before sliding down the wall next to an old engine. Hopefully Sunny and Sides wouldn't find me here!

"Clare! Come out! Come out wherever you are! If we have to get probed you've gotta get-" Sides' voice was cut off by a loud whack! "OUCH! What was that for?"

"For running your mouth! Why would she come out with you telling her that Ratchet is going to examine her valve?"

"I don't know!"

The loud sounds of their peds clambering by was heard just before their voices faded and the ped steps grew more distant.

A sigh of relief escaped me as I leaned to the left onto the pile of scrap I was sitting next to. Operation do not get somebot's servos jammed up my valve was a success! At least for now. I would have to hide from opi and dad too because anything that Ratchet wanted to do to me they would most likely approve of. From a totally professional medical standpoint of course.

I sat there leaned against the pile of parts contemplating what to do next. My options weren't very good. I could either A: sit here and hope that nobot decided to check the spare parts closet, B: run out now that the coast was clear and hide somewhere else, or C: just get the exam over with. No way was the last one happening.

I mean it wasn't like there was anything physically wrong with me or anything. No strange sparks, no systems hurting, no pain anywhere, no stiffness, no decreased functionality. According to my HUD I was running at optimal. Of course that wasn't saying anything about my privates.

"Mmmmmmm nooooo!" I moaned pitifully. Why did doctors have to subject their patients to bullshit exams with no actual reason to do it?!

A few kliks went by in peaceful silence. No sounds from the outside world. No mechs finding me in the closet. All was quiet. I decided to leave the safety of the closet after another two kliks.

Peeking out into the hallway I saw that the coast was clear so I slipped out and turned in the opposite direction that the twins had gone. At least I was pretty sure that they had gone the other way.

Nobot was in sight so it seemed safe to wander. Which I did, right around the corner and into a green leg. "Ooof!"

"You alright Clare?"

I rubbed my throbbing face. "Yeah Hound. Sorry that I ran into you."

"It's alright. You in a hurry or something?"

"Yes. I'm in a hurry to get as far away from the med bay as possible. You wanna help me with that so long as I do not tell Ratchet that you assisted me?"

He smiled and nodded. "Sure. I was actually just heading to my quarters to check something! Wanna come with?"

"Sure!" He offered his servo for me to climb on which I hopped onto excitedly. Together we started for his room with me doing an internal victory dance because I got away from Ratchet! Screw you and your exam Ratchet!

"So umm what are you going to check on?" I asked conversationally.

"An egg that I found before I left Cybertron. I think it's an insecticon egg."

"Insecticon?" Never heard of them before and I had to say that I was curious.

"We have Cybertronian animals Clare, like bugs, cats, hounds, and other things. Insecticons are like robotic bugs."

Umm ewww. If it was a spider I was dipping out for real. "Ok. So you found an egg that you think is an insecticon?"

"Yeah. I can't tell what kind but I think it's about to hatch soon! Normally insecticons are mindless and vicious but if I raise it from birth maybe I can tame it and teach it to sniff out Decepticons or even other insecticons."

Hound chatted on excitedly until we reached his room. He seemed quite happy at the prospect of this insecticon being tamable.

My optics landed on a large glass cage near the far wall under a sun lamp. In the center on a small branch was what looked to be a nest of some sort with a bright green egg in it. It was pretty big too, like the size of an oversized beachball.

Hound sat me down on the large table near the cage. He moved to do something with the sun lamp leaving me to inch closer to the glass so that I could see better. I didn't really need to bother though because Hound opened the cage and lifted the nest out.

It gave me a good view of the way the soft egg was being pushed out in certain places by whatever was inside. I leaned in to get a better look.

Hound crouched down next to me so that we could watch together. Whatever was inside was jabbing at the egg repeatedly and stretching the soft surface out. It was tougher than it looked however so it took a dozen or so tried before a pointy foot finally poked through. Or maybe it was a leg. Dunno.

A second pointy leg thing slid out, both were covered in green goo; it started spreading the shell to break it open.

I leaned in right over the opening as two tiny yellow antennas popped out followed by a boxy metal helm. Four orange optics lit up where it was originally pitch black between the mouth and the top of it's helm.

And then the little thing chittered before pushing itself the rest of the way out of the egg. This allowed me to get me first real good look at it, whatever it was.

It looked kind of like a beatle, spikes were randomly positioned on each of its sharp legs minus the back legs where the spikes were only on the joint that connected the limb to it's body. He was a mixture of purple, dark blue, silver, and even orange. The front right leg was orange with silver spikes, the left was purple along with his helm. The rest of his body was mostly dark blue wih hints of silver forgoing the little thrusters on his back which were a slightly darker shade of orange.

He was cute in a weird sort of way. And he just stared at me until a soft chittering noise escaped him.

I straightened up as he...it crawled towards me on slightly unsteady legs, the entire time it kept up that soft noise.

Hound shifted next to me but said nothing.

It glomped me, like literally glomped me. Legs wrapping around my shoulders and waist like a friggin baby koala bear pressed flush against it's mother. That's how close it got to me covering me in the egg juice still coating it. Umm...

"He likes you."

"He? How do you know it's a he?" I patted 'his' helm awkwardly.

"He has spikes on his abdomen." He said like I should know what that meant.

"So that means he's a he."

"Yes. And he seems to have imprinted on you."

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! That was the sound of my thoughts screeching to a stop. "Umm what? Imprint? What does that mean?"

"He's a sparkling. Sparklings imprint on the first being they see normally."

Oh my god! He thought I was his mom? "Umm Hound I can't exactly keep him at my house when I'm gone you know? Humans don't keep robotic bugs. In fact to most they don't even exist." It...Bob, that's what I was going to call him nuzzled against me. My spark melted a bit despite the situation. He was cute.

Hound frowned thoughtfully. "Well he did imprint on you...but I can care for him while you're gone if you'd like?" He offered.

"That would be good. But umm why didn't he imprint on you? He saw us both at the same time."

Hound shrugged. "It's not an exact science Clare. You just caught his attention more. It's kind of my fault for bringing you in here for this."

"I wanted to come."

"True but I should have known what could happen so I am just as much at fault... So what are you going to designate him?"

I looked down at he who I designated as Bob and patted his helm affectionately making him purr. "His name is Bob."

Hound cocked his helm at me curiously. "Bob?"

"Yes Bob." Baby Bob scurried up my chassis and around my shoulder to latch onto my back where he got nice and comfortable...and where he smeared green goop all over that part of me too. I smeared some of it onto my pointer digit with a grimace. "Ummm..."

Hound grabbed me a cloth and some cleaner so that we could clean my armor and Bob.

I did my armor quickly and afterwards Hound showed me how to clean Bob. He explained that the mental processes of Cyber animals were far more advanced that the animals on earth, but that they had similar instincts so Bob would probably take to burrowing in the ground or under whatever he could get under. So cleaning him was an important skill to learn.

He showed me how to clean between the spikes covering his legs and back which were sensitive, and around the antenna which were even more so. Bob chittered happily while we cleaned him.

It only took us a few kliks to finish cleaning the goop off of him. Sometime during the cleaning he fell into recharge.

"So ummm what do I feed him? Does he eat solid stuff?"

"Yes he will eat energon pellets, specially formulated low grade pellets to be exact. But if he does not get that he will eat metal. Luckily I brought a large supply with me, enough to last for a few vorns at least."

"It doesn't go bad or anything?"

"No it's fuel in pellet form."

Right I should have known that. "Umm is Ratchet going to get slagged off because we have him?"

Hound blinked like he hadn't thought of that. "I hope not."

Yeah that sounded real convincing. Unfortunately it was too late to do anything about it besides hope for the best. Maybe we should just take Bob to Ratchet so that he could see him before he got a surprise when Bob went skittering by him one of these days. If that happened he would probably fly into a rage.

"Maybe we should...take Bob to Ratchet and show him before he finds out some other way?"

"...Maybe."

I opened my mouth to say something when the public comm link went off. It was deadly silent before so it came as a surprise when Ratchet's voice came through. :Clare! Get your aft down to the med bay before I have to hunt you down and drag you here myself! Don't think that I won't either because I already had Ironhide drag your little loverbots down here!:

Sides' sheepish voice came next. :He did. My aft...it hurts.: He whined.

I swallowed thickly. None of that was reassuring at all.

:Clare...DO. NOT. MAKE. ME. HUNT. YOU. DOWN!:

:He'll do it baby, and he will find you.: Sunny commented sourly. It sounded like his aft was sore too.

Maybe I could pretend that I didn't have my comm link on?

:DON'T ACT LIKE YOU CAN'T HEAR ME CLARE!: Ratchet bellowed angrily.

HOW DID HE KNOW?! "Hound help me! Hide me please!"

:ANYBOT THAT HELPS HER HIDE WILL BE REFORMATTED INTO A TOASTER!:

Hound gave me an apologetic look. "Sorry Clare but I don't fancy being reformatted into a toaster."

In an astrosecond I found myself being snatched up and carted from the room. Bob had woken up during the flurry of movement and was now riding alert on my back as I was carried to the med bay. "Traitor!"

"Best to just get it over with femme otherwise Ratchet will make it worse later. Besides we gotta take Bob to see Ratchet right?"

I squirmed valiantly to get free of his hold. "Yes but we can do that when he doesn't want to examine my femme parts!"

"It isn't that bad Clare." Hound assured me as we finally entered the med bay.

My optics shot around the room as my anxiety spiked to dangerous proportions. Nothing about what I was seeing was helping me either, because Sides was on a berth with a long pipe like object jammed in his aft while Ratchet turned it and peered into the little box at the end.

Everybot looked up when we entered the room. "Hi sweet." Sides greeted me in a strained tone.

"H-hi Sides..." I contemplated fleeing but I had no way to escape from Hound.

Nor any time because Ratchet removed the probe from Sides' aft indicating that he was now finished with him; and as soon as he did that he turned towards me and gestured to a berth. "Lay down."

A panicked "NO!" was my blurted response. Not happening! He was not examining my bits!

Ratchet gritted his denta together. "Lay down." He repeated.

"No."

Bob must have sensed my distress because he chittered nervously. The sound caught everybot's attention minus Hound who already knew about him.

Sides hopped up from the berth and approached me curiously. "What was that?"

"It was Bob."

Sunny moved closer as well looking wary. "Bob?"

With a shrug I reached around behind me and lifted Bob into view which was a bit tedious since he was pretty big, roughly half my size in fact. I brought him around in front of me so that he was in plain view.

Everybot just stared, Bob at the twins and Ratchet his antennas twitching, and vice versa. Really I should have been expecting somebot to explode, not been surprised when it came.

And more surprising was that it was not Ratchet that exploded either, it was Sunny.

"YOU INTRODUCED HER TO AN INSECTICON!?" He all but roared. "A FULL SIZED INSECTICON WILL EAT HER LIKE SCRAP METAL!"

Bob clambered around onto my back with a shrill screech of alarm where he clutched at me shaking like a leaf. I reached around to pet him in an attempt to calm him. "Sunny he's just a little hatchling."

My mech swiftly turned to glare at me. "I DON'T CARE! WHEN HE MATURES HE COULD KILL YOU!"

"You're scaring him, please calm down." I urged him. His concern was warming me but at this point Bob was harmless to me. At least I think he was. Hound certainly didn't seem concerned that he would or could harm me. My little bug baby shook against my servo as I pet him.

He had to visibly reign in his temper, turning to Hound afterwards. "What were you thinking when you took her near an insecticon?"

Hound managed to look sheepish. "Well she wanted to come and see." He said like it explained everything.

Sunny pinched the bridge of his olfactory passage AKA his nose. "Take it from her and I might not rip you apart."

Ok now he was taking it too far. "Sunny Bob is not going to hurt me! He's just a baby!"

"Babies grow up! When he's full sized he'll be at least three times your size! He could hurt you!"

"He won't. Hound said he imprinted on me."

Every set of optics widened save for Hound's and my own. "He what?"

"He imprinted on me. Hound says that means I'm like his mom or something." Bob peeked his helm over my shoulder chittering as if to agree with me. "See? He's nice." I lifted him onto my lap again where he sat curled against my stomach.

Sides inched closer to pet him helm cocked to the side when Bob just purred happily. "He does seem rather docile compared to what I've seen from insecticons, even compared to other hatchlings." He admitted.

"Don't even say anything Sides." Sunny growled. "He could eat her when he's full grown."

Sides shrugged. "Well I was just making a statement."

"Don't encourage her."

"I wasn't, but she does have the choice to keep him if she wants to. So long as he doesn't show any aggression towards her of course."

Sunny looked like he wanted to strangle Sides right now.

Luckily Ratchet stepped forward and shoved them both out of the way. He had a stern expression on his face as he held a servo out for Bob. "Let me see him."

I clutched Bob tighter to my chassis protectively. "You promise that you won't hurt him?"

"I just need to scan him to make sure that we know exactly what we are dealing with."

With some reluctance I handed Bob over, only as soon as I did he screeched and desparately tried to get back to me. So he obviously did not like Ratchet.

Ratchet wouldn't let me take him back though, instead sitting him on a berth so that he could look him over with his scanners and other tools. Bob kept screeching the entire time, to the point that it was hurting my audios.

"Hound sit me downn ext to him please?"

Hound quickly deposited me on the berth next to Bob whom immediately ceased screeching to scamper onto my lap. As soon as he was settled he started purring like the traumatizing event hadn't happened.

Ratchet frowned. "Good thing I only needed to do a quick scan of him."

Bob purred, nuzzling and cuddling me like an overgrown kitten.

Nobot seemed to either know what to make of it, or were ok enough with what was happening to say anything. I for one personally didn't care what any of them said about Bob. I was keeping him unless I had some good excuse to get rid of him. In other words if he attacked and killed somebot.

Ratchet took a few kliks to look over the scans with an unreadable expression that I could not decide was good or bad.

"Well after looking at these scans I'm not sure whether it's safe or not for Clare to be his caretaker. He has poison glans in his abdomen and on each side of his face near where his pinscers will develop."

The group shared a collective grimace save for me.

"See? She can't keep him! He'll eat her or poison her!" Sunny repeated. "Hound can take care of his mistake but my femme is not being put at risk!"

I pulled Bob back into my chassis when Sunny reached for him. "No!"

"Clare give him to me! You can't keep him when he's going to grow to be dangerous!"

"No. Hound already said that he would help me take care of him so I want to keep him!" Call me stubborn but Bob was my bug baby. Yes bug baby as in backwards but I didn't care I liked how it sounded!

All optics shot towards Hound who backed up slightly. "I only offered to care for him when she was off base!"

"You encouraged her! If that thing eats her I swear to Primus I will rip your limbs off stuff one up your aft with one of Wheeljack's tension bombs attached to it, and watch you blow up from the inside out!"

Well that was by far the most graphic and horrifying threat I had ever heard Sunny make. It served to make Hound shake with fear. And then there was Sides and Ratchet who looked frustrated as well, and Bob who looked around clueless.

Then he turned to paw at me with a soft click. "Hound I think he's hungry."

"O-Ok. I've got some pellets for him."

He handed some green pellets to me making Bob chitter excitedly. I put a few onto my servo and lowered it down to his level so that he could eat it.

Sides reached out to stop me. "Sweet I don't know if that's such a good...idea." He trailed off completely.

He did that because Bob carefully plucked the energon pellets out of my grasp without even scraping me with his stubby little baby pinscers. In fact he seemed to take great care not to harm me with them when eating.

"See? He imprinted on her. I think it's safe to assume that she's safer from him that anybot else no matter how big he gets."

"You don't know that." Sunny argued. "Insecticons are vicious. What if he snaps and tries to eat her?"

"Then you'll just have to protect me from the big bad Bob." I cooed. He gave me a weird look while I made silly faces at Bob.

"I don't think he'll harm her but I can do some observations to make sure that he shows absolutely no aggression towards her in each stage of his development." Hound offered. "If he does I will take him and raise him myself, and if that proves to be pointless then I will have to put him down."

A protective anger settled in the pit of my spark. Nobot was going to put my little Bob down! "No you're not! He's my bug baby!"

"If he proves to be dangerous he's going to have to be put down baby. That's all there is to it. He could be dangerous to everybot around him if he takes after his feral counterparts. Would you risk innocent bots and organics just to keep a pet?"

No...no I wouldn't. It made me sad to think about but if it came to that I would have to let Bob go. I just hoped that it didn't. And we still had time to prove that he could be tamed! "Fine but only after he matures do we make the decision based on his behavior! If he shows that he is docile I'm keeping him!"

Sunny huffed. "Fine. But if he takes one snap at you I'm going to impale him with my blades!"

"Fine!" I snapped back.

"Well now that the argument is over with it is time to get back to the main reason that you came here Clare."

My spinal struts stiffened as I slowly, ever so slowly turned towards Ratchet. I hadn't noticed it before but he had a long metal set of clamps on his counter...just staring at me. Yes they were staring at me!

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screeched, in turn making Bob screech in response to my fear. Part of me felt bad for scaring him but the majority of me was in flight mode. And flee I did, straight off of the berth and onto the floor where I proceeded to run like my life depended on it.

I didn't get very far though before Ratchet snatched me up. Damn my short legs! "NOOO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Relax femme it's not nearly as bad as the other femmes make it out to be." Ratchet assured me. Only it wasn't as reassuring as he meant it to be since I hadn't heard anything from the other femmes, therefore what he said scared the slag outta me.

Hound took Bob from me as Ratchet sat me on the berth. He had to hold me down until I stopped squirming to try and break free. Eventually I gave up in the hopes that he would let me go, thus giving me the chance to take off again.

He seemed to be expecting that move from me because one of his servos reached down and flicked something on the side of the berth.

All of a sudden I was being weighed down so heavily that I couldn't even move. He-He magnetized me down to the damn berth!

He pulled stirrups from the bottom of the berth to lift my peds into, lowering the force of the magnet in the berth to allow him to lift my legs into it.

Hound turned to leave since he obviously did not enjoy seeing me so terrified. "I'll take care of Bob until you're done Clare. Just relax and it will go by easier." With that he was gone out the door.

He was gone and I was left with my legs propped up and spread wide. My spark could not be racing with fear anymore than it was at this moment.

A small sheet was tossed onto my legs to cover me as Sunny and Sides came up beside me offering me their servos. I grabbed them in a death grip at the exact moment that I felt my valve covering leave me. "I hate you Ratchet. I hate you so much." I whimpered.

"Relax. Tensing will make it worse."

I felt a soft pressure slide into my opening making me tense. "Just you wait! The next prank I pull on you will make you wish you had never forced me to do this!"

The pressure intensified until it was bordering on painful. "I doubt it."

And then I felt something slide into me, something rather sizable.

"I'm using an attachment to probe at you so please be as still as possible."

Oh yeah that made me feel better! Be still I'm sticking some weird alien probe up your valve it's completely normal and safe! SO LONG AS YOU DON'T MOVE! "I hate you." A soft whimper left my lips...it hurt a little bit! Everything inside was so sensitive that even the smallest touch could make it feel really good or really bad.

"I have to check your internal ports then I'll be finished with the inside."

WHAT?! WTFGSIIJIFJAISJFKDCMLAKNFOIAWJOIADLKSMDKASD?! WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER?!

Sides taking notice of my rising discomfort pressed a soft kiss to the top of my helm. "Relax sweet, it'll be over in a few kliks."

"I hate you too."

"No you don't."

"I do. You didn't help me get away from him!"

"You didn't help us get away from him either." Sunny pointed out.

"I DIDN'T HAVE TO! YOU WENT TO HIM ON YOUR OWN!"

"Actually we didn't. He sent Ironhide to drag us to the med bay when we tried to hide too." Sides admitted sheepishly.

I opened my mouth to say something when I felt Ratchet shift his focus to the outside ports. Something about the touch felt...almost good. It made me gasp and squeal.

"Sorry." He apologized gruffly.

This moment was the most mortifying moment of my entire sad little sixteen years of life! I was blushing with mortification, spread out on a berth with my bits exposed, with my mechs standing at my helm watching Ratchet work. At least they couldn't see much. And at least they stayed with me as awkward as it was their presence soothed me a bit.

Ratchet finished up quickly after that. "Well it looks good. Seal is in perfect condition, internal ports are clear of any buildup and in excellent condition as is everything on the outside."

"Ok ok! Please put my covering back on now!"

He rolled his optics but obliged me by snapping my valve covering back into place. "There was one thing that was off however, the lubricant residue that was pooled around the outside of your valve opening."

The three of us froze. "Umm."

Ratchet sighed. "I'm not going to say anything to belittle or admonish you. What you three do in the privacy of wherever you go off to is your business. However I would advise that the twins at least handle you gently until you become more accustomed to...that. In truth your size difference compared to them concerns me though interfacing and mating is possible. It will be quite a deal more painful if you choose to join with them for the first time in their bi pedal modes instead of holoform."

"Oh...ok. Well we're not doing anything like that yet."

"When it does come time for that consider what I have said. Any reckless move on their part could damage you."

"We wouldn't harm her Hatchet." Sides smiled down at me. "It will be an experience that we have to work through together, but we'll do whatever it takes not to harm her anymore than we have to."

"See that you do not." His statement served as a dismissal as well.

None of us needed to be told twice either, as soon as I was released from the berth I scrambled up onto Sides' shoulder so that he could carry me from the room.

This experience would not soon be forgotten. Nor would I forget everything that had been said near the end.

R&R! Sorry for the awkwardness lol but I felt like it would be a good way to torment Clare. And now we have baby Bob in the story! Yay! More coming next time! Thanks to Izzy-dragon-rider for helping me decide how to introduce Bob to the story! Much appreciated! Review time!

HeartsGuardianSol- It would probably be better for their health to delete those pictures! Lol it's the twins though so probably not gonna happened!

himelove22- Agreed no one should ever see their parents doing that. And *squeals* Sides is involved! Finally! I was tempted to drag it out a bit but I refrained.

DarkshadowXsunny-sides- Yes Sides finally got his femme! And yes they are idiots! Thanks!

Miyukumu- Eeeeewwwww is right. Double ewwwwwwww in this case!

Coolgal02- You're welcome you're welcome you're welcome! Lol!

Silent Shooter- I do not envy Clare for being sexed out of her room. Poor thing. Her life must suck in that regard.

VulcanFanGirl- XD!