Static
Chapter 7

====== Megatron's POV ======

As soon as Optimus and I woke up from recharge we were whisked away down the halls and into another room where there was a form of playpen in the middle of it. I kicked up a fuss with Starscream and bit his shoulder plating. That made him yell. Then he looked down and saw that I was glaring at him and he smiled! What an idiot! I've always known Starscream was an idiot but this just takes the Energon goodie! Then he handed me over to Skywarp and Optimus was handed over to a weird Autobot called Blaster. They then set us down in the playpen and sat on the couch and played a weird game on a weird screen.

At first, I didn't notice there was another Sparkling in the playpen with us. She was sat on the other side of the pen and was playing with some building blocks. Optimus nudged me to look. The other sparkling was a silver and cobalt blue colour with a mask just like Optimus' across her lower faceplates. She had bluey-silver antennae like Optimus' and bright blue optics, like Optimus'. But one thing that made her different from any other sparkling was that she was abnormally small for her "age". But I'm no medic; I am Lord Megatron, Leader and Warlord of the fearsome Decepticon Army! Then the sparkling noticed us for the first time and stopped playing with the blocks. Optimus nudged me again and crawled over to the sparkling, obviously wanting me to follow. Like that was gonna happen! He was at least twice her size but the little one seemed unfazed by him.

'Weird' I thought, 'but then again, everything in this universe, especially Starscream, is weird so there's no surprise.'

Optimus sat with the sparkling and both tilted their helms. What was that? A flicker of recognition flashed across the sparkling's optics as she looked up at Optimus. She turned her helm towards me and confusion replaced recognition. Followed by what may have been anger and fury, but also fright. I felt bad about this strange turn of events so I tried to climb out of the pen, in which I succeeded… for three astro-seconds. Blaster must've nudged Skywarp and alerted him of my escape because said Seeker came over and placed me back in the pen. Then I threw a spare building block at him and got him on the wing. Awesome. Then I heard a short burst of laughter and saw the smaller sparkling on top of Optimus' back as he lay on his front. Both smiling greatly.
A sharp pang of jealousy coursed through my circuits and I glared at the two glitch-headed idiots as they were playing with each other and frolicking around the tower of building blocks, both having the time of their pathetic, worthless lives. When Optimus looked up, I turned away before I could see the look of hurt on his faceplates. Then Optimus crawled over to me and tried to get me to join in the fun. When that didn't work, he resorted to bribery. He was beginning to get on my nerves.

Just as he was down to his last trick, I thwacked him hard on the arm with a resounding clang. He stared at me in horror then he retaliated. Soon we were rolling around the pen biting, screaming, kicking, punching and shouting and wailing. Skywarp and Blaster were too engrossed in their stupid game to realise what was going on. The sparkling was sitting in the corner crying silently to herself while we battled it out. It felt familiar, the fighting. I felt like I had done this a million times before. Then Prowl and Starscream came in and stood, frozen, in the doorway staring at us fighting. I managed to bite down hard on one of Optimus' antennae, making him scream. Then I jumped on him, flooring him whilst pounding his back as hard as I could. But Optimus then twisted and punched me square in the face as he grabbed my arm and flung me off him. I felt a bloodlust and I clawed my hand and aimed for his optics, to gouge them out.

It was at this point when Ratchet and Soundwave pushed past them and Soundwave grabbed hold of me and Ratchet grabbed Optimus. I was so angry with Optimus and the stupid crying sparkling that I didn't care what the consequences were of our brawl. I bit Soundwave's hand, hard, causing him to nearly drop me. Unfortunately, he didn't.

I was taken from the room so I could calm down elsewhere in Soundwave's company. I hated the stupid Autobots and I hated Optimus and the sparkling most of all. Then I was told who the sparkling was; Optimus' sister, Static. Jealousy, anger and hate filled me to the brim once more and I screamed in anguish. I screamed and screamed and screamed until I could scream no more; I then resorted to crying and cried myself into recharge, dreaming that I was torturing Static over and over again while Optimus Prime begged me to spare her and take him instead. Then I shot him and he fell to the floor, dead.

====== Regular POV ======

When both sparklings were seperated there was just Static to deal with. She had managed to corner herself away from the fight and was sat crying to herself. Jazz and Blaster had tried to get her out of the corner but failed miserably. Then Bumblebee came and got her out, her still sobbing into his armour. Static was practically unscathed from the fight between Megatron and Optimus but she must've been wounded mentally, seeing her older brother fight and be in pain.

"Ratchet, I don't know how this is gonna work. We've already had one fight, how many more will follow?" said Prowl, his doorwings in a high V shape.

"Prowl you are hardly in a fit position to make that sort of comment," replied Ratchet angrily as he sorted Optimus' wounds, "and I didn't see you trying to stop them. I didn't see you trying to comfort Static, did I?"

"well, no..." said Prowl, his head bowed in shame.

"But I don't know how many more fights this small family can endure before it snaps." Prowl looked at Ratchet questioningly. "Optimus and Megatron are like brothers even if they do fight but that's only to be expected. And now Static has been brought into the mix there is undoubtly going to be jealousy going through Megatron's processor. So they are all like a family and that has to be taken into consideration if we are going to allow them to play together and such."

"ohhh." realised Prowl. Optimus perked up at the mention of his sister and tried to wriggle off the berth.

"Oh no ya don't sonny, you've already got injuries, I don't want to be repairing more." said Ratchet as he placed Optimus back on the berth, "besides, you can go and see Static in a minute after I've repaired you." The mini Prime pulled a face and sat still, or as still as you can get a sparkling to be.

"Hey Ratchet, ya got anything to soothe shock symptoms?" Bumblebee asked as he entered carrying a distraught Static.

"I uh don't know Bumblebee but I think you can see that I've got my hands full right now so it'll have to wait, ok?"

"'k Ratchet."

"Did you bring Static in?"

"Yeah, I figured that she might calm down if she was with Optimus"

"good, good. Set her down next to him. Prowl, you can go now thank you"

"Very well Ratchet, but I will be wanting to finish this conversation another time." said Prowl as he left. Bumblebee gently set Static down next to her brother just as Ratchet had finished repairing his antennae. Static soon stopped crying as Optimus sheepishly stroked her helm. Then she cuddled up to Optimus and they rested there for a while. It was nice for Ratchet's old spark to see them cuddle together after a fight.

"Hey Ratchet?"

"Mm?"

"Is it just me or does Static look slightly guilty?" said Bumblebee worriedly.

"mm, she does a bit. Maybe it's just because of the fight and she thinks they were fighting over her." agreed Ratchet, "but it's best if we let them readjust to each other after Optimus' fierce fighting side surfaced. Static might be a little cautious around him now she's seen that but at least she's seen it now rather than never." And with that, both mechs silently left the annex and shut the door slightly, leaving the two sparklings to recover after the previous events.