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Sideswipe pov
"This is one of the greatest days of my life."
"Seriously? Sides, we're just going to play video games with the sparklings."
"I know! I've been waiting for this for so long! What should we play first?!"
I asked my concerned looking quartet. "Don't worry, he's just really excited." Bella cooed as she sat next to them as I turned the console on. "Sides, they should play something simple first."
"And nothing too gory. I don't want them playing those games until they're at least two and a half, and even then, we need to be present. That's when I began learning." They said as I sorted through a handful of games finally settling on Mario Kart 8. "This seems like a good place to start." I said as I put the game in. Sunny passed out controllers to our sparklings as Bella navigated through the console menu to the game. All four of them cantered their heads to the side curiously as the game popped up with the cheery jazzy tune blaring from the speakers. "Okay! This our dear sparklings, is a racing game! You get to choose a character, and a vehicle, and then you try to win!"
"Most straight forward explanation I have ever heard." Sunny said. "Shut up! Can't you see that they're excited?"
Sunny just rolled his optics as we helped our sparklings along. Freezefire chose baby Rosalina, Nightsinger chose baby Peach, Maverick chose the purple shy guy and Pulse picked Toad. We decided to start them with something easy, so we chose the Mushroom cup. They were a little unsure at first, but once the Quadruplets learned the controls, they slowly got the hang of it. And I do mean slowly. Sunny and I had to coach them through a few courses as Bella helped to physically guide them on their controllers.
After we took a short break for lunch, we went back to playing. This time, our sparklings got the hang of things quickly. They still pouted when they would drive into walls, and when the computer would use items against them, but it was far better than before. Freezefire seemed to have the least amount of trouble, and quickly began to beat out some of the computerized opponents. I won't lie and say that I'm not proud.
"Yaaaay! Go sparklings!" Bella cooed as three of our four sparklings began to grow slightly more irritated.
"NO!" Pulse squeaked furiously as the race ended and as he threw down his controller.
"Easy Pulse. It's just a game. We don't have to play this one anymore if you don't want to."
Sunny said gently, defusing our mechling's tantrum. Freezefire certainly doesn't look happy about him saying that, but it's probably best to move on before our sparklings throw a fit. "Okay, how about we try a fighting game?" Bella said as she pulled another case out from the stack I set aside.
"I thought you said- "
"Super Smash Bros for the Wii U doesn't have blood or cursing. And it's all animated characters, they should be fine." She said with a shrug.
15 Minutes later
"I was so so wrong."
Bella mumbled softly as she picked up a crying Freezefire and Nightsinger while Sunny and I bounced a sobbing Pulse and Maverick. Having the Quadruplets fight each other was probably our worst idea to date. And I'm not even lying. They got so mad at each other for hurting each other's characters before they just upright stopped playing and began crying, while also trying to continue the argument that they were having amongst each other when the game began.
"D'awww! Poor lil' bots! It's okay!"
Jazz cooed as he looked through the games we sat aside and placing one at random into the console.
"Funky Barn?" I asked as I watched the exposition of the story roll across the screen. Once the sparklings began to listen to the happy sounding guitar music they began to calm down. "There, hey do you four wanna help me make a farm? With cows and chickens and- "
"CLICK WHIRR!"
Bella tried to say before our sparklings cut her off with new enthusiasm as she slowly sunk to the ground in front of the couch where Jazz was now lounging. I handed her the gamepad before we walked over to the energon dispenser for a few cubes. When we came back, they were slowly getting through the tutorial. It was rather funny because each of our sparklings wanted to do something different. Nightsinger and Freezefire wanted to change the color of the chicken, Maverick wanted to plant bushes for it while Pulse wanted to build an enclosure for it. It was complete chaos. We couldn't help but snicker at the sight! Anyone would!
["I'll remember this when it happens to you."]
["D'aww! Don't be like that Bella!"]
["Sides, they can't decide on anything! They're worse than you and Sunny!"]
["We aren't that bad!"]
["No, you're right, you two are way worse. But this is a good start!"]
"Bitlets." Sunny called stopping the small round of squabbling that our quartet had started. "You won't be able to play if you keep fighting." He chided. All of them looked sad for a moment as they looked at us before they glared at each other and turned their backs on one another. "Maybe we should play some more later." Bella said as she saved the game. All four of our sparklings whined and fell to their rears pouting. "No, no tantrums." Bella cooed as she scooped all four of them up into a hug. All four snuggled into her lovingly.
"Boys…I think our baby sparks just fell asleep."
"Seriously?" Sunny asked as he leaned in to her to take a look. "That has never happened before. They look okay bro?"
"Yeah Sides. They just passed out. Maybe they just needed a nap."
He said as he passed me one of our sons. We placed our sparklings in their playpen and went back to where Jazz was sitting. "I do believe that we have a few games to play ourselves!" Bella sang.
"Bring it Sweetspark!"
We said as we each picked up a controller.
Two hours later
"It neva stops bein' funny how she can beat the both o' ya at this game."
"Shut up Jazz."
Sunny and I snarled moodily. It's been almost a year since we met our sweetspark and she can still beat us at the older games she loves to play! Honestly sometimes I wonder…
"I wanna play!"
"Pease?!"
"Oh, look who's up!" I cooed as I moved toward my anxious femmlings. Maverick and Pulse are still snoozing peacefully so it's better to remove them before they accidentally wake them up. And it's just the same, since Bella put in a new game. Toad's Treasure Tracker. Within moments of seeing the new game, our femmlings were attached to Bella again. It was a rather funny sight to see, because all three of our favorite girls would tilt their helms to the side to get a better view of the puzzle on screen. "They're really getting into it, aren't they?"
Sunny asked as Bella growled under her breath when something bad happened in the game. Amazingly, our little femmes patted her leg in reassurance as they too growled at the screen.
"Yep. Hey Smokescreen, Cliff."
"Sup guys."
Cliff said as he and Smokey grabbed a table for themselves and began to set up what looks like a poker game. Smokescreen isn't bad at what he does. He's like part tactician and part therapist. And he's damn good at learning the native gambling games of whatever planet he is on. Which isn't a bad thing mind you, but one could say that he does have a problem. It's always good to try an exploit it. Is it wrong? Meh, maybe morally, but at the same time he learns games so fast that it's almost impossible to exploit his problem to your advantage half the time so it doesn't matter. But at the end of the day, he is really fun to play with. "We want in. At least until our sparkmate has to leave for her shift."
I said. "No worries mechs. I'll watch the lil' bits. An' 'sides, it'll only be fer an hour or so. We can all keep an optic on 'em." Jazz said as we all turned to see where a very cute yet angry sounding savage snarl came from. Nightsinger was gently patting Freezefire who was quite literally shaking with rage at the game. Suddenly, our icy blue femmling scooted away from the remote that was previously in her hands muttering several angry "no's" as she did so before she got up and toddled over to me and buried her face in my leg. "No more." Night said softly as she handed Bella the controller. Bella in turn saved the game and went back to the main menu. "Chirp click?" Night asked pointing to the Minecraft app. And just like that, Nightsinger's vision was glued to the screen as Bella kissed her helm. "I don't want to come back here an hour later to find out that I belong to Jazz or that the quads now belong to three other mechs okay? Oh, and if you can, milk them for all they have. We need to start thinking about presents for the quad's first Christmas."
"Which reminds me, what do you want for your sparkday?"
"We'll talk about that later. Love you both. She said as she gave each of us a kiss on her way out. Bella's sparkday is still a week away, but it's better to have an idea of what she wants now for obvious reasons.
"What are ya'll doin fer her sparkday?"
"We don't know. We've been trying to figure out what we should do for a while now, but it's almost like she's avoiding the topic."
Sunny said as he took Freezefire from me and sat her on his lap. "We'll figure something out. In the meantime…prepare to lose some of your cash."
"I doubt that you'll get much from me."
Smokescreen said haughtily as he began to deal out cards.
When our mechlings woke up we fed our sparklings and went back to our games. Pulse helped Nightsinger build more of her castle, and Maverick joined us at the table. After another hour, (during which Sunny and I took about four hundred bucks from our comrades), our sparkmate returned and was praising Pulse and Nightsinger on their castle. The bitlets were pretty much done with games after that. They just seemed content to snuggle up with us, which is nice. For once we didn't have work, and there wasn't any major crisis, so we all just curled up on the couches and watched t.v. The sparklings didn't object to watching a few movies, with us seeing as they drifted in and out of recharge alongside us.
Before we knew it, we were feeding them dinner and curling back up on the couch to continue our lazy day spectacular. There wasn't much left to do in the day. Our sparklings were subdued up until bedtime of course, and that's not really our fault. Apparently, Wheeljack was tinkering with his newest gadget; a portable ground bridge remote. What he wound up doing was destabilizing the time solely around our base to the point where random portals began opening and closing at random.
To make a painfully long story short, we wound up chasing our sparklings into a different dimension that is basically the mirror version of our own, only its set back in 2010. And this happened all because Maverick accidentally rolled his ball into a portal and ran after it. It took Wheeljack two hours to fix the problem and get all of us back home. It wasn't all bad. Sunny and I got to meet our doppelgangers, and apparently, Bella knows a bunch of the bots in that dimension well. Like on a personal level, she even knew that dimension's version of Jazz and his charge were now dating and loving every moment of it.
But like I said, we eventually made it back home safe and sound, where we put the bitlets to bed and then promptly fell into recharge ourselves. Well, I didn't, at least not right away. A year ago, Sunny and I resented the idea of being…well…domesticated. I mean come on, why would we ever give up fighting Decepticons and causing our favorite tactician to glitch? We were fragging great, never had to worry, less responsibilities, Pit, even when we started dating Bella, we hardly changed. We didn't have to, she loved us just the way we were. But now…now we're carrying pacifiers, and blankies and always worrying about the next day over. What are we doing? What are we teaching the bitlets today? What about the long run?
Don't get me wrong, I love my sparklings with every fiber of my being, but I never wanted to be the doting daddy, the type of bot that Sunny and I always claimed we would never be. The kind of bot we used to make fun of. At least, not so soon. We both wanted a family yes, we both wanted sparklings of our very own yes, but at the same time, I kinda miss how things used to be.
["Bella's gone."]
["Probably checking on the bitlets."]
I so don't want to…
["I checked last night. I have the memory file…"]
["Fine."]
I snapped as I rolled out of bed. How am I always the one to…" Bae? Quads?" I whispered as I crept along the cribs noticing that both my sparkmate and our quadruplets were gone. With a sigh, I nudged her over the bond and felt a busy push back from her. She only does that if something is wrong, or if she's working. What the pit is going on?
She more than likely took them to her lab, so I might as well look there first. That still doesn't explain why she went there in the first pla-"Squeak!"
"Shhh…"
"Sowy mommy."
What the pit...? Bella and the quads are…playing smash brothers? "Bae? Wha-"
["Shh! I just got them to work together!"]
She said hurriedly as she returned her focus to the game. Sure, enough there they were, all leaning over the game pad controller pressing buttons and moving joysticks in unison with each other. And they were beating up on Bella. Badly.
["My mom used to do this with me when I had nightmares. Sometimes the default of sleeping with her just didn't do it, so we would play until we beat the game or until we fell asleep."]
["Really?"]
["Yeah. And besides, how else will the sparklings get good enough to hustle other bots out of money one day?"]
["Our sparklings are gonna be so corrupt."]
["Too late for that, already decided that they would have the pranking gene. This was sure to follow. Now, go get the snacks. I put them on the table."]
She said as she tried in vain to defend her character. Once I grabbed the snacks and once I told Sunny that everything was fine, I joined her on the floor and watched as our sparklings beat her again, and again until they changed the game back to Toad's Treasure Tracker. After that, Sunny joined us as we made a small fort out of blankets and pillows before getting in on a few rounds of racing.
The last thing I remember is curling into Bella's side. Before waking up to find the t.v. off and a cherry red femmling sleeping on my chest. Fuck being a perfect parent, we sure as slag aren't that, and we never will be. The quadruplets will be just as silly, annoying, adorable, and smart as we are. Slag that they'll be smarter. The point is that I have to stop seeing Sunny and I's life as being domesticated, cause we aren't. We still prank, we still play video games, we still race but now we just have more people along for the ride. I can live with that. Especially when our new passengers are super adorable, and willing to learn all the bad ways we teach them. Having said that, the terror family has to find a whole bunch of new ways to make Prowl glitch. Hey it's like a rite of passage, and the quads will need the practice if they ever want to be as skilled as Sunny or I in the long run.
A/N: Hello! Sideswipe here for our Authoress! She apologizes for not posting in five months, but due to school and work she barely had five hours at most to write a week. The good news is that she passed all of her classes, the bad news is that the Hatchet has her locked away in his Medbay and is only allowing her out to work. Though she is exhausted, she wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Happy Winter Solstice, and a happy new year! 🎆🎇🎉🎁🎄
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