Title: The Last of the Sparkling Guardians
Summary: Sparkling Guardians are special bots who were specialist on caring and protecting sparklings. One way you can tell them apart from other bots is their spark which is golden. During the war, they became extinct. But unknown to every bot, there is still one more left and he's hiding on earth. Will they be able to protect him from a collector and his hunters? Animated
Rating: K
Everyone was in the medbay. Bumblebee was still in recharge as the syringe wears off. Now everyone was thinking about what happen earlier.
"Don't get it." said Optimus "Why would anyone be after Bumblebee?"
"An enemy perhaps?" suggested Prowl.
"Hey guys. One of them called Bee something. Maybe that's why." said Sari
"What did they call him?" asked Bulkhead.
"Well they called him a...sparkling guardian." They look at her with surprise as she asked the question. "What's a sparkling guardian?"
"A sparkling guardian is a bot who specializes in taking care and protecting sparklings or offsprings as you might say." explain Optimus. "But because of the war, they died out... at least until now." he said that last part while turning to Bee.
"Okay, but how do you know you're a sparkling guardian?"
"You'll know if a bot is a guardian is by their spark. A guardian's spark is golden compare to a normal bot's spark which is blue." said Prowl.
"So the only way to know is by looking at their spark?"
"Yes. That's the only way possible." Everybody turn their glaze to Ratchet who had his back turn doing something else. He can feel their glazes on him.
"Ratchet." Optimus said with his arms folded." You knew, did you?"
"Knew what?" They turn to see Collector in the room.
"That Bumblebee's a sparkling guardian." said Bulkhead, before he covers his own mouth.
"Oh. I see you found that out." They look at him with surprise.
"You knew?" said Prowl.
Ratchet signed deeply before turning to the others. He hated to do this but he had to protect Bumblebee. And it would be best if everyone knew.
"Alright listen up!" He yelled getting everybody's attention. "What I'm about to tell you does not leave this medbay. Is that clear?" The way he had that really big wrench in his hand in a very threatening way made it very clear that he meant business.
They nodded very quickly. Once he was sure he had their attention he signed once again. "Alright. First of all, Bumblebee is in fact a sparkling guardian." he put up his hand to silence them before they asked questions. He continued.
"I was the medic who help Bumblebee's carrier, Yellow Jacket, to deliver Bumblebee when he was being sparked."
Flashback
It was vorns before the war was going to end. Even so the battles were go on like it just started. Ratchet was looking around to help any bot that got caught in the crossfire when he heard a faint,
"Help!"
He pauses and listens. He heard it again. "Help! Please, someone!"
He quickly ran to the source of that scream. He move some debris as the scream became louder and familiar. Once he made it through, he saw who it was. It was a yellow mech with small black stripes on his doorwings. He knew that bot; he was Stinger's mate, Yellow Jacket.
"Yellow Jacket, are you alright?" he said as he quickly made his way and scan over the bot. He was surprise at what his scans were telling. "You're in labor."
He nodded as he grasps his swollen chassis with pain. From the looks of it, he has been in labor for a while. "Okay, listen to me. I need you to breathe alright. Nice, deep intakes. You hear me?"
I-I am," the doorwinger gasped. He hissed at another painful contraction, before taking deep intakes.
"Okay, I need you to open your chassis so that I can see how it's going" Yellow Jacket opened his spark chamber. There was a bright light before it dimmed down. Ratchet looked towards the gestation chamber and saw that the blue sac that held the sparkling had rips and tears in it. But not enough to allow the sparkling to get through just yet.
"Okay. You're still just in the beginning stages, so we've got a little while. I'm going to give you a little bit of sedative, or else you won't be able to tell what's going on with your spark because of the pain."
After about a mega-cycle the sparkling was ready to come out.
"Okay, Yellow Jacket. I need you to give a hard push so the sparkling could come out."
Yellow Jacket did what he was told and started to push. The sac had torn even more and the protoform of the sparkling was starting to make its way out of the sac.
"Come on, Jacket." the medic encouraged. "You're doing fine; just hang on a little longer."
Yellow Jacket push and push until Ratchet could see the little protoform making its way from the chamber.
"A little more. It's almost there." He could see more of the protoform coming out. He was smaller than average but still healthy."One more. A big one."
Yellow Jacket did what was told and there was a bright golden light. It dimmed down and Ratchet was holding a small little protoform in his hands. But what surprises him was the color of its spark; it was golden.
Once it was out, Yellow Jacket's spark chamber closed and he sagged back against the wall, taking in several deep intakes of air, a testament to just how hard it was to deliver sparklings. Ratchet cleaned up the little protoform with some clean cloth he had. He wraps the now new born sparkling around it and hand it to its mother. "Congratulation." smiled Ratchet "It's a little mechling."
Yellow Jacket looks up and a smile appears on his face. The colors were starting to come in as he took the little mechling in his arms. The little meching was yellow with black stripes like him and it was crying softly. "He's beautiful." he turns his head to the medic that helped him. "Thank you, Ratchet."
"Well don't thank me yet. I still have to get you to a hospital." Ratchet transformed and loaded the tired mech and sparkling. The ride to the hospital was a comfortable quietness.
"Bumblebee."
"Uhm?" Ratchet questioned.
"His name. I'll call him Bumblebee."
"Bumblebee? Sounds nice."
They went back to that comfortable silence when a thought came to Ratchet's mind.
"Yellow Jacket, is Stinger Bumblebee's Sir?"
Yellow Jacket's helm went down in sadness. "Yes, he is."
"I see." Ratchet felt sorry for the fact that Stinger died before he got the chance of meeting his sparkling and for the fact that Bumblebee will never meet his Sir.
"Ratchet, I want you to promise me something."
"What is it?"
"I don't want anyone else to know about him. About his spark."
"The fact that he's a guardian?"
"Yes. As you may notice that they're dying out and if everyone knew about him some might go after him. Please don't tell anyone."
Ratchet understood. The sparkling guardians were disappearing because of the war. If the decepticons find out about him they'll go after him. And the fact that he too might be a mech carrier means that they can use him as a breeder.
Ratchet shiver from the thought of the young mech being use like that. Maybe it will be best to keep him hidden from others. If he survives the war then maybe sparkling guardians will appear again once the war's over.
"Calm down Yellow Jacket, I understand. And I promise you, I wouldn't tell anyone about Bumblebee."
End of Flashback
"He made the very few bots that knew about Bumblebee promise to keep him a secret so that way bots don't go after him as a sparkling. Collector was one of the few. It was because Bumblebee's secret was hidden that he survived the rest of the war, otherwise he would have died like all the others. We all hope that if at least one guardian had survived the war then maybe sparkling guardians will appear again." He sign and waited for a response.
Everyone remain silent for a few minutes as they gasp in all the information given to them. From everything that just happens Bumblebee's the last of his kind and is kept secret for protection. Now someone had figured out who he is and is after him for some reason.
Optimus, realizing the gravity of the situation, stood tall. "Thank you Ratchet, we understand." Bumblebee's in danger now and as his leader and friend he have to protect him. "And I promise we'll not tell anyone about Bumblebee and would do our best to keep him safe."
The others nodded. They'll do anything to keep their youngest member safe. Ratchet signed a relief. He felt better that the others were aware and were willing to protect him as well.
"Alright then. We should prepare for Elite Guards' arrival."
Sorry if the flashback sparking scene was kind of confusing. I wasn't really sure how I was going to have the little Bee sparkling born. From the fics I read there's like two ways that can happen. One from a similar way mothers give birth and the other one they came out through the carrier's spark chamber.
Anyways, Review :)