A/N: This is set back on Cybertron in Optimus' POV, and depicts the event of Will's capture.
I stared at the smug faceplate of Sunstreaker; then at Sideswipe's sullen one, both of whom had a grip on the newer seeker that they had been chasing around the battlefield. The only obvious conclusion was that they had finally caught him.
I had never gotten a good look at the seeker before, but now that he was right in front of me, I had to hide my disappointment. This seeker was just a youngling, who looked barely any older than Bumblebee. How had we never heard of any Decepticon younglings before?
The seeker looked sullen, his wings drooped down. But it was his optics that had me intrigued. They were gray. And if it wasn't for the Decepticon emblems on his wings I would not have taken him for a Decepticon.
"What is your designation?" I asked him as even now not one of our Autobot spies had been able to place a name on the seeker.
The seeker only sneered, the shame of having been caught giving way to anger. Still, he said nothing.
And yet that look reminded me vaguely of my brother's second.
"What is your designation?" I repeated.
Again, the seeker youngling remained stubbornly silent.
I let the air circle through my vents. I knew how stubborn seekers could be; a trait only second to their arrogance.
Before I could repeat myself, again, a sudden shot hit near us and I looked upward to see the Command Trine and my brother of all mechs here.
The Trine fired at the Twins as my brother dived for me. He knocked into me and I saw the Twins jump away from the seeker to avoid the shots aimed for them. I saw Starscream swoop down and grab the seeker before he and his other two Trinmates fled.
"All this, for one seeker?" I questioned.
Megatron scowled and had I not been standing as close as I was, I never would have heard, let alone believed, the next words he spoke. "That is no ordinary seeker." He hissed shoving me back. "Touch my sparkling again, and die." He spat quietly before he too left.
It was true, even after that battle, had I not heard Megatron himself say those words, I never would have believed that my brother had a sparkling. If what he said was true, then it would have also served for me to believe that the reason none of the spies had found out about him would be because the seeker was not supposed to be discovered.
A much sadder thought came to my processor.
I had a nephew, and I didn't even know his designation.