"Me and Arcee planned to wait a couple millenniums before out first sparkling, but next you know we were expecting our first," said Ratchet with a smile remembering how in only two years of being bonded he and Arcee sparked a sparkling.

"Were you nervous since this was your first sparkling?" asked Bulkhead with wide optics knowing he would be to.

"No!" spat Ratchet. "I'm a medic. I've handled sparkling before. I knew very much how to handle my own. I was as calm as anything."


"GET OUT OF THE WAY!!" cried Ratchet trying to move through the speeders trying to get to other places like him. "YEA I AM KING OF THE SKIES!!"

"Ratchet," said Arcee sitting next to him her had placed on her belly. "You can calm down. The sparkling probably won't be coming for a while."

"YOU JERK!!" cried Ratchet shaking his fist at the mech who cut him off from a line.

Arcee just chuckled and shook her head. Yep, that's her Ratchet. She just sighed finding it funny how up tight and nervous he was about having their first sparkling. Since being a medic she'd think he'd be more prepared for this kind of thing.

She guessed it was different when it was happening to them. She slumped her shoulders and relaxed as Ratchet finally made it to the hospital, but even there he wouldn't lower his voice as they were put on a waiting list.

"WHAT THE FRAG IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" cried Ratchet to the mech at the front desk. "She's due any time and you put her on a waiting list?!"

"Sir she said she just started the labour, when she says it's time then we'll bring her in," said the annoying mech.

"I am her SPARKMATE! I say when she's READY and it's NOW!!" shouted Ratchet.

Arcee just smiled as she sat next to the others who waited. She knew some were greatly hurt and so should go before her. She was probably no where close to start the sparking yet. She always considers others before herself anyways.

"LOOK!" pointed Ratchet. "I don't care if OPTIMUS PRIME himself is expecting! Get her in NOW!!"

Once he said that Arcee smiled as she watched up on the monitors the great Optimus Prime holding a small sparkling, a newspark by the looks of it. He was being interviewed on his new sparkling.

"So what are you going to call him?" asked one reporter.

"I don't know, I was thinking about a junior," said Optimus cuddling his sparkling close.

It wasn't long after that when Arcee knew it was time to go in. They ring her in and her sparking went smoothly. After their sparkling was sparked she held it in her arms and just rested. Ratchet sat by her side with a great smile just looking at the little thing.

Ratchet scanned the sparkling's features and just sighed by how perfect it was. Arcee hugged her close and smiled saying-

"She's beautiful."

"Not as," started Ratchet seeing Arcee looking at him confused, but he soon finished. "Her mother."

Arcee blushed and placed her head on his daughter's chest just listening to her sparkbeat. Her smile vanished when she realized how abnormal it was.

"Ratchet," she said a little afraid as she held her out to him. "Her sparkbeat's not normal."

Ratchet then listened and found she was telling the truth. He looked at Arcee who was very concerned about her daughter and wanted answers. Ratchet didn't know what to say, whenever he ran into something like this it was never good. So they soon asked the doctor that delieverd her about this.

"Oh don't worry," he said checking the stats. "She's perfectly healthy. Nothings wrong with her except that. Many people go on with abnormal sparkbeats. She's perfectly fine."

Arcee and Ratchet let out a sigh of relief as they looked at their daughter. For a moment there they thought they were gonna hve problems with their first sparkling.


"Wait a minute," said Bulkhead. "I thought Prime said you had a son?"

"What's with the daughter?" asked Bumblebee. "She change into a mech or something."

"Yea, she get's a gender change you slaggin' idiot!" shouted Ratchet annoyed of Bumblebee's jokes.

"Bumblebee you wanted to hear the story so just sit and listen," said Optimus.

"Hhh, alright," bowed Bumblebee.

"Now . . . like I was saying before I was RUDELY INTERRUPTED!!" started Ratchet glaring at Bumblebee.


Once they brought their little femme home and placed her in her crib they just couldn't keep their optics off her. She was very white with a bit of pink like the way her father is colored with white and red. She slept like an angel the first night and ever her creators fell in love with her.

"She looks just like her old man," said Ratchet perking out a smile.

Arcee's optics narrowed confused. She looked at Ratchet like he was crazy. She might have been a little colored like him, but she did NOT look like him. She favoured her mother more.

"Ratchet . . . are you sure?" she asked with a smile.

"Sure, look at that pretty face. She gets that from me," said Ratchet pointing at her as she slept on her side.

Arcee just chuckled and shook her head. There was no getting through to Ratchet no matter what. She then sighed and leaned her head on Ratchet's shoulder as she asked-

"What should we name her?"

"Does it really matter?" asked Ratchet. "Once she joins the army it will be changed."

"Ratchet," said Arcee hitting him playfully. "Everyone, at least, had a name before. Even you and I."

"Alright, alright," said Ratchet shaking his head. "Something beautiful and perfect like her."

After a moment of thought Ratchet found he couldn't think of any femme names. Arcee just looked at her daughter and plainly said-

"I like Ariel."

Ratchet looked at his sparkmate and then back at his daughter. Yes it seemed to suit her. Ratchet smiled and shook his head as he pulled his bonded into a hug.

"Yes . . . I like that . . . Ariel," said Ratchet falling even more in love with his daughter.


"She was quite a handful, but since I was on leave for so long I helped out quite a bit," said Ratchet remembering his beautiful sparkling femme. "Arcee still had a daycare to run and other little sparklings to watch. As Ariel grew so did the count of sparklings she watched and so had a hard time dealing with her. That's where I came in. I feed her, I changed her, I took her to see her mother every day, I even helped her through upgrades. She couldn't have been more perfect."


As Ariel grew she was as sweet as could be. Everyone knew her around town because of how sweet and kind she was. When she was old enough she was put into daycare where her mother could watch her and be around her more. She was very much like her in many ways.

Ratchet was proud of his daughter. She was very popular among creators and sparklings. They wished they could have a daughter like her and the sparklings enjoyed playing with her. To the younger ones she was more like a big sister and took good care of them no matter how young she was.

Arcee loved her daughter a great deal. She was so much like her in so many ways. She was the sugar of Cybertron. Even though war was still going on she made everyone as happy as could be and her creators got many compliments for her being so kind sparked.

She loved everyone and would even turn the spark of a Decepticon if ever she met one. Ratchet was glad she hadn't and kept a close optic on her just in case something happened to her, but so far nothing did. She was as good and as healthy as could be. Pretty much a perfect child.

One day, after daycare hours, she was playing outside on the playground with her mother sitting on a bench just watching her with a smile. She then noticed another femme and sparkling come. Ariel looked and watched as they came up to the playground and the mother asked-

"May we join you?"

"Oh sure," said Arcee with a smile seeing the pink femme was probably a strong warrior.

She then turned to her sparkling and said-

"Now go play. See there's another sparkling there."

But all her sparkling did was shake his head and shove his face in her legs not wanting to separate from his mother. She just sighed and said-

"Come on, she's a nice sparkling. You've been cooped up at home too long. Go play with her."

"But, but," he started.

"Look I'll be over there by the other mother. You'll be fine," she said with a reassuring smile as she left her mech and joined Arcee.

He just stood there not knowing what to do. Ariel noticed him and so came over to him with her arms behind her back and waited till he looked at her before she cocked her head and smiled saying-

"Hi, I'm Ariel. What's your name?"

"I'm Orion," the blue and red little mech said.

"Would you like to play with me?" she asked.

"Sure!" his smile enlarged.

And so Ariel took his hand and they ran over to the swings so she could push him. Arcee and the other mother just smiled as they watched their sparklings get along. They let them play for hours till they had to say good-bye.

"Thank-you for letting my son play with your daughter. She's very kind," the pink femme smiled.

"Thank-you," said Arcee touching her daughter who clung to her legs. "Your son was sweet too. He doesn't get out much I see, being he's shy and all."

"No, he doesn't," said the mech's mother. "That's why I'm trying to make him interact with other sparklings."

"I see, well it was nice to meet the both of you," said Arcee looking down at the mech.

"You too," said the pink femme as she took her small son and left.

Before they left out of sight Orion turned and smiled saying-

"Bye Ariel."

"Bye Orion," said Ariel with the cutest smile.

And so they went home to Ratchet. Ariel talking about a little mech she met on the playground. He chuckled to himself knowing that when she grew he'd have to worry a whole lot more than about some little mech she met on the playground. No, it's be some mech she met at the academy later on, but he sighed knowing she had a long time to go before she was ever there.