First off yays an new chapter... secondly... I'm sorry it's so short... my muse wouldn't cooperate with me.
Many thanks to my guest reviewer Shadow Kat for giving me a sparkling name! My brain wasn't giving me anything for names... though I think I'll blame my muse who's running around cackling about the future... Where's the present muse when you need her?! XD
Many thanks to Answerthecall and Shadow Kat for reviewing.
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers
Chapter 6: News
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Ron was haggard looking when he opened the door to Sam, the bags under his eyes a testament to the lack of sleep the man had gotten. "Sam." the man smiled weakly at his son.
"How's mom?"
"She's been pining since you called." Ronald said as he closed the door behind Sam. "The funeral is tomorrow..."
"Did you call Aunt Sylvia?"
"I did."
"And?"
"She said 'That girl gave up the right to be considered part of her family when she up and disappeared.' Which means she and Brace won't be coming."
Sam stared dubiously at his father. "But Zeke is Brace's sister! Granted Sylvia is her step mom but still she could show a little respect for her!"
Ron smiled grimly at Sam. "It is what it is Sam."
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"So why do you think that Prime wanted to call us here for?" Sideswipe mumbled to Sunstreaker as he watched the humans file out of the hanger.
"I hope it's a mission Primus knows I could do with some con bashing."
"Sunny you just got out of the med bay earlier today. Do you really want to go back into the Hatchet's lair so soon?"
"Eh. It could be worse."
"Quiet you two." Arcee scolded them as Will shouted ot Optimus, "The rooms all clear!"
"Thank you Colonel." The Prime nodded his helm at the human as he turned and exited the hanger. "I have asked you all here so that we can greet our newest member."
"A new member? Seriously Optimus, Barricade isn't worth an introduction." Sunstreaker grumbled.
"He wasn't talking about Barricade, Sunshine." Ironhide grumbled.
"So then... who made landfall?"
"Silenzio Sunstreaker and let em talk. I would like to get some sonno in before I have to go on patrol tonight." Dino growled at him.
Optimus vented as several of his other comrades glared at the golden bot. "As I was saying. I have asked you here so that you can meet our newest member. Ironhide if you will."
The other bots frowned at Ironhide as he slid his chest plates open and pulled out the sparkling from his sparkling hold. A collective gasp echoed around from the gathered bots before they were soon gathering around the black mech to stare at the tiny sparkling.
"By the Allspark..."
"I don't believe it."
"Oh mio Primus..."
"An honest to goodness sparkling..."
"Is it a mech or a femme?"
"So... who knocked Ironhide up?" CLANG. "Ow!" Sideswipe cried as he rubbed his helm where Ironhide had belted him with a fist. "I didn't say that it was Sunny!" CLANG. "Ow Sunny!"
"What's it's name?" Bluestreak asked as he glanced over the tiny sparkling.
"I... I haven't thought of one yet..." Ironhide said with a slight smile on his face plates
Arcee smirked when she saw his smile. "It looks like someone's stolen your spark."
Ironhide's face plates tinged blue as he began to blush when the others began to snicker.
"Hey why don't you designate her Echo?" Everyone turned to glance at Bluestreak who blinked at the multiple sets of optics on him.
"... Why Echo?" Elita-one asked as she blinked at him.
"Well I thought it would be a cute name for a femme... Plus I got the name from this movie I went to see with Ollie called 'Earth To Echo'. It's about-"
"Blue we can google it." Sideswipe said as he placed a servo over Bluestreak's mouth plates. "Though I gotta admit I kind think it's a cute name for a cute femme." Several more affirmations followed his own.
"Alright then, Echo it is." Ironhide said as he glanced down at the curious sparkling in his servo.
"So... as I was asking... Who knocked y-Ow!" Sideswipe yelled as a wrench hit in in the helm this time.
"Stop asking stupid questions Sideswipe. You know full well that Ironhide would never cheat on Chromia." Ratchet growled.
"Well then how else did he find a sparkling? I doubt the Con's would just hand over a sparkling and I'm certain that she didn't make planetfall with Eject. And with the Allspark gone it's slagging impossible to get a sparkling short of being sparked." Sideswipe pointed out.
The senior officers all glanced at Optimus. "There is one other reason I have called you here... This sparkling was sparked by the Allspark."
"What?!" Everybot besides the senior officers began to shout questions at Optimus who fought to resist the urge to rub his helm.
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"Hello? Ratchet? Anyone there?" Eject called into the med bay.
"I'm sorry but he's out at the current moment in time." a brunette woman in a lab coat said stepping out of the doors that led to the human med bay. "I'm the only medic on staff right now..."
"My cousins wanted to see their mother..."
The woman smiled. "You mean the gal with the memory loss right? I'm afraid she's asleep right now... but If you want to sit with her I won't stop you..." she said as she beckoned them. through the doors. "You know you could try telling her stories while she's asleep. She may not be consciously-" The door closed behind them cutting the rest of what the doctor was telling the twins.
"I'll be waiting in here if you need anything Nora." Eject said as he made his way over to a berth and hopped up to take a seat.
"Are you sure you wanna wait around?" the teen asked blinking up at the blue mech.
"Yeah. I figure Mikaela doesn't need to be completely bombarded by too many people at a time. Besides old Ratchet wanted me in here for my check up today so it's probably safest if I just wait here."
"Um... Okay if you insist." Nora hesitated as she placed a hand on the door.
"You don't really want to go in there do you?"
Nora bit her lip, her head down as she tried to bite down the retort that instantly sprung to the forefront. She turned and smiled up at Eject. "Nah... But someone's gotta keep an eye on those two, and they'll listen to me... at least I hope."
