A/N: Don't own Transformers.

Thanks again, Blood Shifter, your help makes this possible :D

Thank you to all our readers, too, glad you all enjoy the Sequel hehe

Now, let's just see if Barricade succeeds with his devious little plan, eh?

"That is Starscream?" Came a deep baritone voice. Starscream shied from the voice. He sounded angry and mean. His attention diverted to the small silver form that was sitting on Barricade's shoulder, blinking and staring at him.

"The almighty Starscream, Air Commander of the Decepticons reduced down to this little runt?" Frenzy asked, his blue optics blinking as he leaned down to see the little sparkling closer. Starscream automatically backed up from the prying optics, muttering something they didn't understand.

"Re-sparked," Optimus' optics narrowed at Barricade. He didn't like how Barricade and Frenzy were speaking of said seeker.

Barricade laughed, his laugh followed by a mechanical maniac's giggle, "He can't speak either?" Barricade really should watch how he speaks of a sparkling that belongs to a Prime, "He can, just none of us can understand it, since Seeker sparklings only use this tongue." His voice was low as he spoke, almost like a warning to the shock trooper to shut his vocal processors.

Starscream gave an indignant growl at the two who were sizing him up. He really wasn't liking them right now. It didn't do much for the Decepticons as they looked down at him and started to chuckle and then started laughing at him. Barricade lowered his hand to the sparkling, who was now speaking to himself constantly in his own language. The Shock Trooper went to poke at Starscream, still surprised the supposed Second in Command of the Decepticons was now this tiny sparkling. He was even more surprised when said sparkling took the opportunity to bite the offending claw. He didn't want this mean bot to be anywhere near him and he backed up after he released his bite after hearing Barricade growl. Barricade leaned forward, glaring at the biter, who glared back.

Even in his tiny form, Starscream was already showing signs in his behavior that was definitely him. Barricade went to lift his hand near the sparkling and then with a quick move of his fingers, he poked the seeker again. Starscream backed up, his little legs skittering as he turned and darted for his caretaker. He was scared of this guy. Why was he poking him? Who did he think he was, anyways? Optimus let out another soft hum to the Seeker as he climbed up his abdomen to his chest plate and poked at him until his caretaker let him in to hide from the offending bot.

Barricade recognized the hum, "He's… your sparkling?" that made him drop his hand in surprise. He knew the hum that Optimus was sending to the sparkling was something only sent between caretakers and their young. Optimus nodded, seeing the shock on Barricade's face plates. He could still hear Starscream twittering and chirping in his chest armor. He could feel Starscream's agitation.

"How?" Okay, a sparkling is one thing. A sparkling of Starscream could be explained by Wheeljack, he was sure, but Starscream as a newly-sparked sparkling? Huh?

"A Prime never reveals all of his secrets," Optimus smiled with one of those 'I know something you don't know' smiles and looked down at his chest when he felt Starscream trying to make an energon connection with him. Starscream wasn't old enough to produce self sustaining Energon, so that meant he was dependant on his caretaker for his feedings. Not like he minded, it was a type of bonding when he offered to initiate feeding by tapping the special lines he could hook up to. Optimus felt the tap and opened the ports for him as he did. Ah, the simplest of things were so the best.

Barricade and Frenzy both watched Optimus curiously, trying to figure him out. After deciding that he wasn't going to tell them anything else, they both sulked out of the office. Barricade had originally gone to tell Optimus about the other Decepticons that were still in space, and yet, he had been alerted to something that even he was sort of speechless about.

What would Thundercracker think? And Skywarp? He initiated a transmission.

/ I will be at the power supply station in a few cliks. Are you all prepared for entry? /

/ Affirmative. /

/ When you land, I will need to secure that you guys aren't shot at. /

/ Didn't you speak with Optimus? /

/ Uh…/ the line went dead for a short second.

/ Barricade? /

/ I didn't speak to him about it, Sorry / how was he going to tell the seeker that their leader and wing mate was re-sparked into a bubbly sparkling? Heh. He and Frenzy headed to the station and there he sought out the perimeter, "You know what to do, Frenzy,"

No answer.

"Frenzy?"

"Yeah, yeah," Frenzy groaned. He knew what this entailed, and he knew he was gonna get shot at and whatnot, but to get the others here, he would do it. Besides, it's not like they could kill him. He wasn't so easily killed, just as the people years prior found out.

Frenzy opened the door to the cruiser and scuttled in behind the fence. Barricade watched Frenzy as he went beside the building, taking out the cameras as he got to them. He planned it out so the cameras wouldn't even see what hit them. Of course, this alerted the security within the building and the alarms went off. Now was the time to move, when the humans were in disarray.

Frenzy darted into the suddenly opened door as people piled out. They hadn't seen him because he was for one thing too fast, the other, they weren't looking for him. He moved through the corridors, hiding in closets and rooms until he made his way to the main room. Other people were still in there. Slag.

/ Three humans in the main computer room. /

Barricade acknowledged Frenzy and suddenly transformed, stepping over the fence to get the attention of the humans. This was part of their plan anyways. People would be too confused by barricade being there than to protect the inside, and they knew it. Barricade walked around from the side until he was face to face with the humans who were still looking for whoever disabled the cameras.

Frenzy listened as someone yelled something over the intercom and the three in the computer room fled. Time for action. He moved to the computer, quickly hooking himself up to it as he searched for the power reactors, he signaled them to shut down. More alarms went off in the building as the power went out, the cannons powering down themselves as Frenzy disconnected from the computer, /Now!/

/ Thundercracker, bring them in! /

Barricade continued to talk around, the stinging pings of the bullets more of an annoyance than anything, but he made no move to hurt them, no move to threaten them, he just stalked around as they shot at him until Frenzy scampered out of the building. He transformed and opened his door, then bolted through the fence, watching it spark he severed the electricity in it and disappeared down the road. He made sure he was far away from the scene when he heard Optimus suddenly call him, "Barricade where are you?"

"En route through Tranquility, sir," Barricade lied.

"I need you to go to these coordinates and secure the area, I just got a message about a Decepticon walking around the facilities."

"A Decepticon?" Barricade smirked, hiding it in his voice.

Starscream was worried now. He felt the worry from his creator creep into him and he suddenly started poking at the chest of his creator's armor until he was let out, he skittered around Optimus until he finally came to rest on his shoulder, looking over at him curiously. Beep?

Optimus countered the look as he reached for him and held him out to Ratchet, "I need to go find out what is wrong out there, Barricade is en route now," he looked to Sideswipe and Sunstreaker and Ironhide, "You all, with me."

Starscream watched as Optimus headed out the open door. Wait! What about him? Why was he leaving him? Starscream struggled in Ratchet's grasp, trying to pull himself free to be with his creator. He didn't want to be separated. Ratchet struggled to hold onto the struggle Seeker, trying to hold him hard without hurting his wings, "Starscream, settle!" Ratchet knew this was the first time that Optimus left him behind, and he also knew it was going to be hell trying to keep him grounded.

Starscream growled and still tried to get free, he pulled hard at the grasp, and when it wouldn't let up, he bit down on the offending hand. Needless to say, the surprise enough got him free, and then he bolted from Ratchet, far enough to turn and watch him shaking his hand furiously. He was cussing up a storm too. Starscream grinned in satisfaction. He leapt into the air and transformed, headed right out the open door like a bird that just became free. He went out and up.

Starscream totally forgot about his creator as he played in the sky. He went up and down, all over, going from one end of the base to the other and back again. Ratchet watched him, hoping he wouldn't take off and leave. Starscream proceeded to play in the vastness that was about him, spinning, turning and ratchet couldn't help but smile watching him. He remembered the old days for a short moment, then remembered the now, and what Seekers loved to do best. Fly.

Starscream was happily bounding all over the base until he picked something strange up on his sensors. Something that was akin to himself. Curiosity got the better of him. Were there other seekers to play with? Ratchet watched in horror as Starscream bolted through the air off the base and dread washed over him as he suddenly ran towards the exit, leaping and transforming as he started to drive, his entire body bouncing off the ground at least twice from the momentum of the leap and speed.

Whatever the signatures were, he was getting closer to them. He could sense them strangely. As if other visions opened for him. When he got closer, he went to the ground; landing and he proceeded to walk as he approached what appeared to anyone else as a meteor crash site.

There were three said meteors lying there. Starscream hide behind a tree as he watched one start to unfold and stand erect, looking around with blood red optics. As if scanning the area for the first time, Thundercracker, completed his scan and then stopped, doubling back as he sensed another Cybertronian near. He froze. They didn't want to fight, and his optics descended upon a tree.

Starscream felt the optics on him and suddenly felt very afraid. His fear wasn't unfelt by his creator and he started to panic, sending the panic to Optimus as well. His panic went to sheer fright as he heard someone come up behind him. Thundercracker watched the small tree, and then his sensors picked up someone else, and Ratchet appeared before them, skidding to a halt as he came upon the three Decepticons there. Skywarp unfolded and so did Soundwave.

/ Optimus, you are never going to believe this. / Just Ratchet's voice made Optimus worry.

/ Where is Starscream? I can feel something isn't right! / And he was inbound.

Starscream felt the curiousness of the Seeker who was looking at him, and he, himself wanted to see the seeker and he looked around the tree, muttering, "Who are you?" he spoke in his own language. Since Starscream had no reason to fear a Decepticon, his fear disappeared as he started to peek further and further from the tree until he was in full view. Soundwave and Skywarp were now staring at the tree and Ratchet transformed, his open aqua optics going to the tree. Dread washed over him, "Starscream," he whispered, "Don't move,"

Thundercracker couldn't believe what he had just heard from the small Cybertronian and Skywarp took a step closer. Starscream backed slightly as they closed in on him, turning his head when he heard Ratchet. When he did, everyone else looked. SLAG. Ratchet looked up to the Seekers and the Communications Officer, "How did you get here?" His processor was trying to decide the best course of action to get the sparkling away from the impending danger.

"We are not here to fight, Ratchet, we want to live in peace," Thundercracker spoke to Ratchet, showing that he was unarmed. Everyone else nodded and showed that they were not armed.

"What are you doing here?"

"We have been stuck on Mars and the Moon for years, we know about the humans using plasma cannons to shoot the others from the sky,"

Plasma cannons? Shoot who? What?! Ratchet's attention went back to Starscream who muttered something else. Thundercracker gave the sparkling a raised ridge and replied with the same tones and signals, in which Starscream looked up and slowly started to approach Thundercracker, warily.

/ Ratchet, we are close, what is going on? Where is Starscream? /

/ Optimus, Starscream is talking to Thundercracker. /

There was a deafening silence on the comm. link. Ratchet knew this silence, / They want to defect. /

/ How did they get near him? /

/ After you left, he escaped my grasp and… found them. /

Muttering from the three seekers took Ratchet's attention from the com link. He saw Thundercracker reach down to Starscream and Starscream reached up to him. Deep down Ratchet was scared that they were going to hurt him, but they made no moves to do so, "Ha, would you believe it?"

"What?" Soundwave asked as he softly pet Ravage at his knees where he had sat down to watch the interaction.

"This little guy says his name is Starscream!"

Optimus approached quickly. A little too quickly, unfolding and transforming on the fly as he did so, sliding to a stop to the two seekers and the main seeker who had his sparkling in his hands. Starscream had felt him coming and leapt to him, curling up to him, instantly headed for his chest, where Optimus had it ready for him to go, "What is going on here?"

"Optimus," Thundercracker said, "We don't wish to fight, we wish to be in peace,"

"How did you get here?"

"Barricade and Frenzy disabled the human's plasma cannons."

"The cannons that wiped out the entire fleet of Decepticons," Skywarp remarked, heatedly.

Plasma Cannons? Huh? The humans were going to get a talking to, "Barricade harmed humans?"

Just then, as if on cue, Barricade arrived, looking to everyone, feeling rather sheepish, yet proud his plan worked, "No humans were harmed in our retrieval method,"

Frenzy giggled furiously as he pounced on Rumble, completely ignoring the Shock Trooper and Optimus. Soundwave watched the interactions of the young ones and a smile crossed his face plates, but that was well hidden by the visor and the plate over his face, which he never retracted.

Optimus started to hum to Starscream again as he felt him getting low on energon and winding down from his experience. All of the Decepticons except Barricade gave Optimus a shocked look, "That's your sparkling?" Skywarp asked.

"Yeah, I forgot to tell you guys why I couldn't speak to Optimus about your entry," Barricade said, watching their confused expressions.

Soundwave watched curiously. He was not only curious how Prime had created a sparkling, but he wanted to know why he had designated it Starscream, "Designation reasoning: Wrong."

Optimus looked to Soundwave, "No, he really is Starscream,"

"How is all this possible? We know that Starscream bit the dust," Skywarp said, a little offended that they would name a Sparkling after their friend.

Optimus nodded to them, "Just know that Primus works in mysterious ways,"

Both Thundercracker and Skywarp's jaws nearly fell off, their serrated teeth visible as they did so, "You're saying that that little sparkling really is Starscream?" They weren't sure whether they wanted to laugh or stomp the little shit to pieces.

"Indeed," Optimus answered.

Next: The term Chaos is nothing in comparison as to what sparklings, younglings and humans can get into ...