Title: A youngling problem

Fandom: Transformers: Prime Beast Hunters

Genre: Family

Rating: General audiences

Tags: Fluff, Cybertronian!Miko, Sparkling!Optimus/Orion, Sparkling!Megatron/Megatronous, Sparkling!Arachnid, Sparkling!Ratchet, Sparkling!Soundwave, bit OOC

Summary: Ground bridges…. Not exactly the most reliable thing, are they? Cybertronian!Miko, Sparkling!Optimus/Orion, Sparkling!Megatron/Megatronous, Sparkling!Arachnid, Sparkling!Ratchet, and Sparkling!Soundwave. It might be a bit out of character, sorry

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The ground bridge sparked again.

"Duck!" Ratchet shouted, jumping away from the ground bridge, everyone following suit. Being too slow, Miko cried out as five small objects slammed into her, sending her onto her aft and holding the five objects.

Which she realised were crying younglings that looked similar to Optimus, Megatron, Arachnid, Ratchet and Soundwave.

Instincts kicking in, Miko clutched the younglings to her chest and let out soothing mechanical coos and clicks. As soon as the younglings were calm, Miko asked softly as not to scare them, "Hello little ones, my designation is Miko. What are your designations?"

"I'm Megatronous," the Megatron-look-alike said, and pointed to the others. "That's Orion Pax, Arachnid, Ratchet and Soundwave. Where are we?"

"You're at the autobot base," Miko replied, smiling at him as she felt surprised looks on herself and the younglings. "Do you know what happened to cause you to come here?"

"There was an explosion," little Ratchet piped up, cuddling Orion for comfort. "I… I was so scared that we were going to… To…"

Miko let out a few comforting clicks, hugging all five younglings closer. "Hey, it's all right. You're all fine, ok? It'll be ok…"

"I want to go home," Arachnid whimpered, wrapping her legs around herself.

"You will," Miko reassured, slowly standing up as Megatronous climbed onto her left shoulder and Soundwave onto her right. "Are any of you injured? Hungry? Tired?"

"My arm hurts," Orion admitted at the same time Arachnid said, "Who are they?"

"We'll get your arm looked at, and the bots around us are my friends." Miko walked over to the berth, placing all of them onto it. She looked over each one, seeing if the others had any injuries. "Well, you all seem fine. Orion, you have only a small dent on your lower arm, so I'll buff it out for you, ok?"

Orion nodded, cuddling into Megatronous' side, Megatronous wrapping an arm around the red and blue youngling.

Smiling at the sight, Miko looked at Wheeljack. "Can you get a few energon cubes for me, please?"

Wheeljack stood there, stunned for a moment, but was quick to snap out of it, nod his head and run towards where the energon was stored.

Miko looked back the younglings, smiling. "Well, as you know, I'm Miko. The bots around us are Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Smokescreen, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, and the one who left is Wheeljack." She pointed to each bot in turn.

"That can't be Ratchet," Orion frowned, pointing to the youngling Ratchet. "That's Ratchet."

"Well, we will call one of you Hatchet, how about that?" Miko asked, smirking a bit.

"I'll be Hatchet!" Youngling Ratchet yelled. "I'm much scarier, see?" With that, he turned to Orion and yelled, "RAWR!"

Orion screamed, jumping sideways and falling off the berth, landing on his aft. "RATCHET! That wasn't nice!"

"Orion, are you ok?" Megatronous asked in worry, leaning forwards and looking down at Orion.

"I'm fine, Megatronous," Orion replied, glaring at the snickering Hatchet. "At least somebody cares!"

Miko laughed, picking up Orion and placing him next to Megatronous. "Well, he's defiantly Hatchet. Very scary."

Hatchet puffed up in pride.

"Don't you mean very not scary?" Arachnid asked, grinning as Hatchet deflated.

"Now, now," Miko tutted, "no need to be mean to each other. Oh, thank you Wheeljack." She handed a cube each to the younglings. "Here; try not to make a mess, and don't drink it too fast or you'll make yourself sick."

The younglings replied with a hurried 'thank you', drinking the energon a bit too quickly in Miko's opinion.

Shaking her head, Miko turned to her friends with a grin. "We should play with ground bridge's more often."

Arcee scowled, glaring at Arachnid. "Not if it results in that thing."

Something inside Miko activated, and she stood in front of the younglings protectively, snarling, "That thing has a name, and don't you ever make cruel comments about my younglings!"

Arcee snorted. "I'll make comments as I see fit."

Miko pointed a blaster at the femme. "If you ever make a comment like that again to my younglings, I will tear you apart."

Arcee put her servos in the air. "Calm down, Miko. What's up with you?"

"You insulted my youngling!" Miko growled, tied between tackling the femme and staying near her younglings. She suddenly frowned. "Wait… What is up with me?"

"You're Carrier protocols have been activated," Ratchet answered, scanning her. "And it seems the younglings have… Grown attached."

Miko suddenly noticed that the younglings were now huddled up behind her, all of them pressing into her back and looking terrified. Miko instantly put her blaster away, turning around and cooing at the younglings, picking them up and cuddling them. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you…"

The younglings made cooing sounds back, all of them snuggling close to where her spark was, eventually falling asleep.

Smiling, she looked up at Optimus. "We get to keep them, right? Please?"

Optimus smiled softly. "Of course."

Miko grinned, spark warming.