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Chapter 4
Sideswipe was pulled out of recharge by chirps and clicks, he onlined his optics to find Sidestep kneeling next to him with a hand press to Sideswipe's chest plate.
"Hungy daddy." Sidestep proclaimed.
"Ok Sidestep." Sideswipe said sitting up. Sidestep automatically held his arms up as the red Lamborghini got off his berth. He picked up Sidestep who wrapped his arms around his neck and nuzzled against him.
As soon as Sideswipe walked into the rec. room, he noticed that all the tables were occupied. A few Autobots looked up and went back to their conversation or stared. Sideswipe scanned the tables, looking for someone to sit with and spotted a grey and red Datsun sitting alone. The red Lamborghini grin and walked over to the table.
"Hey Blue."
Bluestreak looked up from his energon and smiled. "Hey Sideswipe."
"Mind if you watch Sidestep for me while I get some energon?" Sideswipe asked.
Bluestreak stared at the sparkling in the red warrior's arms and with a smile said, "Sure thing Sides."
Sideswipe smiled back at his friend and placed Sidestep onto the table and walked towards the energon dispenser. Sidestep watched his daddy went to get energon and turned back to Bluestreak.
Bluestreak's smile never left his face as he was happy to see a sparkling after a long time. "So you're called Sidestep?" he asked and received a nod. "Hello Sidestep, I'm Bluestreak. And seeing how your designation and colors are similar to Sideswipe's, I can guess that means he's your daddy. I'm amaze to see a sparkling to be honest and being on Earth must be a new and scary experience for you but don't be scared. Earth can be a nice place once you get use to it. It may not be anything like Cybertron but it's still a lovely place with the blue sky, the sea, nature and the animals. Hound loves the animals and nature. The humans are strange creatures, they're kinda like us but without transforming into other things, they travel by vehicles, planes and boats. A lot of them are in a war but there are some good in them. Like the music. There are different types of music they created. There's even one called Jazz! Jazz was shocked when he found but he didn't mind. Some of the Autobots liked the human music, most don't though. I think Jazz and Blaster love rock. There was even this one time Blaster went to a concert-"
"You talk a lot." Sidestep interrupted with wide optics. Sideswipe stopped short at the table and frown at what his sparkling said as Bluestreak shuttered his optics. "I do…" he agreed.
Both were surprise when Sidestep giggled and clapped his hands. "I like you Blu'."
Bluestreak shuttered his optics again. "You like me?" he asked a little skeptic.
"Yep! I like lisenin' to you." Sidestep answered.
Sideswipe smiled, he knew Bluestreak couldn't help ramble over trivial stuff and sometimes repeated himself which annoyed some of the Autobots. So to have Sidestep say what he did made the gunner happy. "Well don't just sit there all quiet like Blue, continue on."
Bluestreak smiled once more as he took the cube from Sideswipe. "Where was I? Oh, yes. Blaster went to a concert…"
"Ok Sidestep, what do you want to do?" Sideswipe asked once they had their energon.
"Expor?"
"Explore? Ok, let's go explore the Ark. Wanna come Blue?" Sideswipe asked the gunner.
"Can't, I got patrol duty." Bluestreak told his friend
"Too bad, we'll you later then." Sideswipe said as he picked up Sidestep. "Say goodbye to Blue, Sidestep."
"Bye-bye Blu'!" Sidestep said to Bluestreak with a wave. Bluestreak smiled and waved back.
Sideswipe showed Sidestep the quarters, where the wash rack was and was pointing at a door. "That is the training room and you can't go in there until you're older."
"Why?" Sidestep asked.
"Because it's dangerous for little sparklings, there are Autobots shooting in there."
Sideswipe explained.
"Oh." Sidestep said. "Down daddy."
"You want down?" Sideswipe asked and wondered why he was repeating Sidestep's words in a form of a question. He set Sidestep down and held onto his tiny hand so he wouldn't wander off.
Some time later as father and son rounded a corner, a small group before them caught Sidestep's optics. Curious, he point a tiny digit and ask. "What that?"
Sideswipe turn his optics on what Sidestep was pointing at and smirked. "Those are humans."
"Hoomans?" Sidestep wondered, repeating the strange word.
"Yeah, tiny organics that is really fragile and squishes easily if you're not careful how you handle them." Sideswipe explained.
"They what Blu' talk about?" Sidestep asked.
"Yes they are." Sideswipe answered as Bumblebee and the two humans walked over to them.
"Hey Sides… why do you have a mini you?" Spike asked.
"This is my sparkling." Sideswipe answered,
Bumblebee stared and said. "So those rumors are true."
"What's a sparkling?" Spike asked his friend.
"A sparkling is a… well, like a human baby." Bumblebee tried to explain.
Both Spike and Carly's mouth hang open as they both took in the sight of the towering Cybertronian 'baby'.
"So does that make Sides a dad?" Carly asked.
"It does." Sideswipe answered smugly.
"I'm sorry, but I just can't see you as a creator." Bumblebee stated.
"I'm doing a good job at it." The Lamborghini huffed.
"Well, Mr. Dad, your baby just ran off." Spike pointed out.
Sideswipe turned his gaze to the ground and spun in time to watch Sidestep disappear around the corner they came from. "Dammit, Sidestep!" Sideswipe yelled as he ran after the sparkling.
Bumblebee and his two human friends watched this and Spike looked up at Bumblebee with hands on his hips as he said. "Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do."
Bumblebee rubbed his helm, deciding how to start.
One of the chapters of the Sparkling Care Sideswipe read last night popped up from his memory bank that sparklings had an abundance of energy and a high level of curiosity and if left alone would wander from their creators. Sideswipe had hope that Sidestep would stay put and not wander off.
"Sidestep! Come back here!" Sideswipe ordered as he chased after him, Sidestep merely ignore him and sped up. "Sidestep!" Sideswipe mentally reminded himself to sternly tell his sparkling why he shouldn't wander off by himself. The red warrior was satisfied when Sidestep ran into a room, figuring he be able to grab the sparkling inside. But his satisfaction turn to fear when he realized what lay in that room. "No Sidestep! Don't go in there! Stop!"
It had been fascinating to stare at the little organics, but it became boring with his daddy just standing there talking to the hoomans and the yellow mech, Sidestep wanted to look around his new home some more but a memory of his mama sternly telling him not to wander off without her because of the danger popped into his little processor which was quickly replaced with the one called Jazz explaining to him he was going some where safe. Sidestep took one last look at his daddy and the others to see them still talking and he started back up the corridor his daddy and he came from and wondered if he could find his way back to the med bay and the funny growly medic.
Sidestep had turn around a corner and was trying to remember which way to go when he heard pedes thundering towards him from behind. Terrified, memories and instincts washed over his processor telling him to run from the threat. And he did.
Sidestep ran through the halls, running from the mech chasing him, his logic circuit telling him to stop while his processor screamed for him to run and hide. He spotted a door closing and bolts through just as the door cycled shut. Sidestep stood in the room as fear and the need to run turn into curiosity , he stared at the pieces of machinery sitting on the table pressed into one wall, there were bits of circuits and chips littered everywhere and looking down at some near his feet some them melted and twisted. He could see spools of wires of many colors peeking out of a steel metal cabinet door, and there were metal sheets of different shapes and sizes either leaning against the wall or laying on the floor, some he noticed were also melted, scorch, bent or ripped which he found rather odd. Sidestep then noticed tools lying on the ground in disrepair and in bad shape as everything else or some rather strange case, fused together and he was baffled at the few that seemed embedded into the wall and looking up, some tools in the ceiling too.
Sidestep also found the odd shaped scorch marks on the walls in the form of an adult mech which brought his optics to the only mech in the room working on a large machine set in the center of the room. He walked over to both and watched as the white and green mech with the funny helm do something he couldn't see inside the machine. Curiosity piqued, he asked, "what chu doin'?"
Wheeljack looked up from his machine to stare down at a mini version of Sideswipe he didn't think much of it as he answered. "This is my latest invention. It's supposed to help detect Decepticon activities. I'm working out the bugs in the circuit boards."
"Bugs?" Sidestep said but was paying more attention to Wheeljack's flashing fins on his helm.
"Yep." Wheeljack said as he tweaked something in his machine one final time before closing the panel. "That should do it." The engineer press random buttons and they both watched as the machine hummed to life. It would seem at first that Wheeljack's invention was working until it began to shake violently. "That's not supposed to do that." Wheeljack utter as he worked to turn the machine off.
Sidestep didn't like how violent the invention was shaking and began stepping backwards towards the door. He squeal loudly as large hands picked him up and clung onto Sideswipe as the red warrior ran out the engineer's lab. The door barely closed after Sideswipe as a loud booming explosion was heard behind them followed by a thud.
The explosion startled Sidestep badly that he began screaming. Sideswipe wince as his sparkling's screaming seem to cause his audios to vibrate and ache that he had to practically turn his audios off. "There, there Sidestep. It's ok." He said, trying to calm Sidestep down. The sparkling didn't relent and continued his screaming. Sideswipe continued trying to soothe and calm his sparkling and began to worry when nothing he said worked.
"What's going on here?" Ratchet asked much to Sideswipe's relief.
"Oh thank Primus, you're here Ratchet." Sideswipe yelled over Sidestep's screaming.
"I got a call from Wheeljack that his invention exploded, again. So I came to check on him. Why is Sidestep screaming?" Ratchet wondered.
Sideswipe told the medic how he took his optics off Sidestep for a few breems, how the sparkling wandered into Wheeljack's lab and how he barely got the both of them out before the engineer's invention exploded. "And Sidestep began screaming after it exploded. I tried calming him down but he just won't."
Ratchet stared at the two Sides and said, "Give him to me." Sideswipe handed Sidestep over to Ratchet. The medic cradled the screaming sparkling to his chest plate and began rubbing his crest and Sidestep slowly stopped his screaming and began emitting a purr from his vocal processor as he lean into the touch. "This is what you do to calm a sparkling down." Ratchet informed the new father."I should've thought of that." Sideswipe mumbled a mite jealous. "Why was Sidestep screaming?"
"Considering where he came from, it's perfectly understandable." Ratchet said.
Sideswipe thought about it and knew that Sidestep was brought to Earth from Cybertron and since there were still Autobots and Decepticons fighting back home and that the seekers left on the barren planet more then likely bombed the surface for- ooooooooh.
"If the Decepticon seekers bombed Cybertron for hiding Autobots, then the explosions probably scared him." Sideswipe murmured sad for his sparkling.
"Exactly." Ratchet replied and handed the calmer sparkling over to Sideswipe. "Next time he has another panic attack, rub his crest." Sideswipe nodded and watched Ratchet enter the smoking lab.
"Thanks Primus Sunny comes home tomorrow." Sideswipe mumbled more to himself knowing that Sidestep was closing to falling into recharge to answer back as he walked back to his quarters.
Much of the day went by and most of the Autobots spent the afternoon and evening getting to know the sparkling and vice versa. Some even gave him toys to play with or simulate his processor with. Some Autobots were skeptical about a sparkling being on the Ark, let alone a sparkling that belonged to one of the pit-spawn twins. They soon changed their processors once they learn that Sidestep wasn't acting anything like his creator.
The next morning as Sideswipe and Sidestep were having their breakfast, Inferno tried to drag Red Alert into the rec. room.
"Come on Red, you can't avoid this room forever and I am not going to keep bringing you your energon." Inferno informed his mate.
"But, but." Red Alert stutters as he pointed at the staring Sides.
"What about them?" Inferno asked as he sat the frantic Red Alert into a chair.
"What about them?" Red Alert repeated. "The pit-spawn twin is multiplying."
Inferno smiled as energon dribbled down Sidestep's chin and as he wiped at the liquid, smearing it more on his face. "I think the sparkling's cute." He commented and before Red Alert could protest some more, Inferno press their lips together.
Sidestep watched the two bondmates kiss and with a smile Sideswipe covered his optics. "It's rude to stare."
"Don't be like that Sides." Jazz said with a grin. "Daddy's lying, it's not rude to stare at two mechs kissing." He crooned to the sparkling.
"Bad daddy, lyin' is bad." Sidestep scold staring up at Sideswipe trying to give his creator a stern frown but failing miserably.
Jazz chortled at that, "That is so slagging adorable." He said as he reached across the table and squeezed the sparkling in a hug.
"Blu'! Blu'!" Sidestep clicked happily as he watched Bluestreak walk in as he tried to get out of Jazz's grasp. Bluestreak smiled as he walked over to the table.
"Good morning!" he greeted to those at the table. Sideswipe and Jazz watched amaze as Sidestep crawled across the table to cling onto Bluestreak.
"Awwwwww." They both cooed and Jazz snapped a picture of that and shared the image of the adorable sight through his bond with Prowl. Seeing that Sidestep was preoccupied listening to Bluestreak, Jazz turn to Sideswipe and asked, "So Sunny's coming back today. Does he know about Sidestep?"
"No, I kept our bond blocked because I want this to be a surprise and I'm sure he's still pissed at me." Sideswipe answered.
Jazz nodded, "Yeah this will be a surprise alright."
The afternoon came and Hoist, Sunstreaker and a few other Autobots who went up to New York drove up to the entrance and transformed out of their alt modes. Hoist went to report to Prowl or Optimus, whoever he found first, the others went for energon, their berth or the wash rack. Sunstreaker headed for his and his brother's quarters to get his wax and cleaning supplies before he headed for the wash racks, he wanted to be finally cleaned and waxed after that fragging ordeal of a mission before he did anything else.
Sunstreaker stopped in front of his quarters staring at his twin sitting in the hall, just sitting and reading a datapad too! "What the slag are you doing out here?" Sunstreaker demanded.
Sideswipe's head snapped up and he pressed a finger to his lips. "Shhhh! Be quiet, Sunny." He said in a hushed whisper.
Sunstreaker rolled his optics at his twin and punched in the code to their quarters. "Whatever Sides, I don't have time for your games. All I want is to get washed up, grab some energon and then recharge."
Sideswipe shrugged as Sunstreaker walked into their quarters and waited for him to come back out.
Sunstreaker took one step into the room, stared at the tiny thing recharging on Sideswipe's berth, grabbed his cleaning supplies and walked out. He stopped next to his brother and asked, "Why is there a mini version of you recharging on your berth?" a thought crossed his processor and a groan escaped out of him. "Please tell me you didn't mess around with one of Wheeljack's machines and made a mini clone of yourself."
Sideswipe glared at his brother and said, "Do I look stupid enough to do something like that?" the look on Sunstreaker's face clearly said that he was. Sideswipe sighed and tried to figure out a delicate way to explain the situation to his twin. "You remember back on Cybertron when we got separated by those Decepticons?"
Sunstreaker thought back to that time. "And you ran into Eclipse? Yeah, I remember." he answered. Sideswipe waited patiently and Sunstreaker raised an optic ridge at him. "You didn't." Sideswipe nodded and Sunny began cursing. "Of all the Cybertronians you had to frag, it had to be her." Another thought. "Please tell me she's not somewhere on the Ark. I don't want to run into her." Sunny growled, remembering how Eclipse beat them both the first time they all met.
Sideswipe sighed again. "You don't have to worry about that." He told his twin softly."What do you mean?" Sunstreaker asked. Sideswipe took the datapad Eclipse left him from his subspace and handed it over to Sunstreaker. He watched Sunny read the datapad.
"Slag." Sunny muttered. "How did she die?"
"She was killed by Decepticons, Jazz and the other Autobots on Cybertron forced them to retreat… Jazz found Sidestep and brought him here." Sideswipe answered.
Sunstreaker rubbed his helm as he let the fact that his twin has a sparkling and he was an uncle sink in. "Sidestep? Honestly?"
Sideswipe threw his arms in the air and said, "Eclipse is the one to give him the designation who am I to argue?"
Sunstreaker continued staring at his twin and said, "Whatever. I'm gonna head to the wash rack."
"What? Don't you want to meet your nephew?" Sideswipe called after him.
"Wash first and then I'll meet him!" Sunstreaker called back.
Sideswipe smirked knowing that Sidestep would sleep another Earth hour or two and knowing his brother would take just as long polishing his frame so uncle and nephew will meet at the rec. room.
Sideswipe's chronometer began beeping to let him know that it was time for Sidestep to wake up. He got up from the floor, stretched his stiff joints, punched the code to his quarters and walked in. He watched as his sparkling began stirring from his nap.
"Had a good nap?" Sideswipe asked as Sidestep yawned and nodded while rubbing an optic. "Hungry?" he asked and Sidestep nodded again. Sideswipe smiled as he helped his sparkling off the berth and taking his hand, headed for the rec. room. The Autobots that were helping Hoist were informed of there being a sparkling on the base. They didn't believe it as they didn't believe that the sparkling was Sideswipe's. That is, until they spotted Sideswipe holding the sparkling's hand and walking down the hall. And like the other Autobots, they couldn't help stare at the sparkling.
Sideswipe was aware and a little annoyed his fellow Autobots stared at his sparkling like humans stare at the animals in zoos. "Does being stared at annoy you?" he asked Sidestep.
"I dun mind." Sidestep answered.
Sideswipe left Sidestep on an empty table to get some energon for them. He returned to see Sidestep sitting on the table humming to himself. "You sure are happy Sidestep."
"I'm happy 'cause I have daddy." Sidestep answered with a smile.
Sideswipe smiled back and said, "I'm happy to have you too Sidestep." And gave his sparkling a kiss on top his helm.
"Wow, I didn't know one of the pit-spawn twins was capable of showing affection." Bumblebee stated as he watched the scene.
Sideswipe glared at the yellow mini-bot and noticed he had something fuzzy in his hand.
"What is… is that a giant stuff animal?" Sideswipe asked.
Bumblebee held up the teddy bear that was much larger than a human and said, "Yeah. Carly thought it would be nice to give Sidestep a teddy bear to cuddle when he sleeps."
"How was she able to pay for that?" Sideswipe asked as Sidestep stared wide optic at the bear.
"Spike and Carly paid for it together." Bumblebee answered.
"That was sweet of them. How did you get it here?"
"Had it strapped to my hood." Bumblebee answered and handed the teddy bear to Sidestep. The sparkling took the teddy bear from Bumblebee and stared at it. Both Autobots watched in anticipation for Sidestep's reaction. The sparkling chirped happily at the new gift and hugged close to his chassis.
Bumblebee smiled and said, "I'll let Carly know that Sidestep loves her present. Now I have to go, I have monitor duty." Even if Sideswipe didn't say goodbye to the mini-bot as he left, Sidestep waved his hand and said, "Bye-bye Bee and thank you."
Sideswipe took his energon cube in hand and brought it to his lips, he paused as he watched Sidestep hold his teddy bear close to his chest with one hand and reach for his cube with his other hand. Sideswipe stopped him and said, "Wouldn't it be better to set your bear aside? We wouldn't want to get any energon on him."
Sidestep stared down at the bear for a few clicks and held it up to Sideswipe. He smiled and took his son's bear from him, a bit amaze on how it fits in his palm and set it aside. Sideswipe had to make sure Sidestep drank most of his energon and not get all of it on himself. Sideswipe was glad he brought a clean washcloth with him as he wipes Sidestep clean.
As soon Sidestep was finish with his cube, he took his bear back and bounced it up and down on the table. Sideswipe watched this for a while until a very clean and waxed Sunstreaker walked into the rec. room. He walked over to the energon dispenser, he downed the first cube, he grabbed a second cube and walked over to his brother and nephew.
"Feeling better?" Sideswipe asked with a smirk. Sunstreaker snorted at his brother and took a drink from his energon cube. He stared down at Sidestep and the sparkling stared at the yellow mech until he cringed, clutched his teddy bear closer and scooted closer towards Sideswipe and away from Sunstreaker. The twins both frown at this and Sideswipe asked, "What's wrong Sidestep?"
"He's scary." Sidestep answered.
"Why are you scared of your uncle Sunstreaker?" Sideswipe asked.
"He looks like evil yellow Decepicon." Sidestep answered.
Sideswipe tried in vain to hold back the smirk as he said, "Stop looking scary to your nephew." Sunstreaker just glared at him and flipped him off. Sideswipe grinned and told Sidestep, "Don't worry Sidestep, uncle Sunny may look scary but he's really not, he's only scary to Decepticons."
Sidestep was still unsure and Sideswipe gave his twin a look for him to talk to Sidestep. Sunstreaker muttered something and began talking to his nephew.
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