Author's Note:

Just want to take a moment to say thanks to all you readers. I read my email and saw that a lot of you guys have favored me and all that. Thanks you guys, I really appreciate it.

Another thing, I know some things are a little unclear but I promise to explain them in future chapters, most likely flash backs. They wouldn't be in order but you'll be able to figure it out.

Final note, chapters might take a little longer to update because of school. I'm a dual-enrollment student at BCC and I have a few of essays and speeches I have to focus on along with the projects and work I have to do from my high school classes so yeah. Sorry about that.

And now on with the story.

Things Change

Chapter 13:
Meet The Little Ones

"Sir?"

The leader look over his shoulder to see Scalpel by his door. "What is it, Scalpel? Shouldn't you be preparing for the mission?"

Scalpel bow before his leader. "My apologies, but we receive some information that might be related to the sudden appearance of the Autobots."

The leader turn fully and slowly walked towards the down mech. "Do tell."

"Well, for one thing we just receive word that a small team of D.O.O.M agents were captured by the Autobot Elite Guards not too long ago and are being imprison as of now."

"Is that it?" The leader said turning around.

"No. But because of that group's capture, we do believe the Autobots were able to gain some information from them about our mission. Which would explain why they would send a group of their own on this planet; to protect our targets from any harm."

The leader, with his back turn didn't say anything. Scalpel wait patiently for his response.

"Delay the mission for the time being. I want a close optics on these Autobots." Scalpel nodded.

"Yes, sir."

He stood back up and left the room, leaving his leader alone with his thoughts.

"This may have set some setbacks," he said "But ever-the-less this mission will continue on."

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Before Optimus and his team had enter the berthroom, they couldn't think of anything that would have Goldbug and Barricade make them promise not to hurt whatever was inside. But now they had enter the berthroom and got a look at their three most important things, they immediately understood why. But of course these were the last thing they would have thought of when they enter the room.

The Autobots were shock. No, not shock. That was an understatement. Stupefy was a better word for it. Prowl was just able ready to crash while Acree was excited. The others just stared with great amazement.

Meanwhile, the bond couple just smile. A proud smile of what they have achieve over these last 20 years. Standing in the middle of thier small living room where all the bots can get a clear view of them, were their three little sparklings. But they weren't just any normal sparklings. They were triples! With all three of them being femmes.

This was not what the Autobots were excepting. All mechs had their mouths wide open with their optics ready to pop out from thier sockets. The only femme the group, Acree, was had her hands together as she look down at the precise things.

"Everyone," announced Barricade "These are our sparklings."

At the announcement, Prowl crash down to the floor while they others optics popped out of their sockets. Meanwhile Acree was clapping her hands and bounce up and down like she was a human teenage girl who was about to see her favorite boy band. Yup, they weren't expecting this at all.

The femmlings looked about a few orbital cycles old. Two of them, along with Frenzy who was in the room as well, gathered around the offline Prowl while the third one shyly hid behind Goldbug's legs. Goldbug kneeled down to her to comfort her.

"It's okay, little one." he said softly "They wouldn't hurt you."

As the mechs recover themselves, Acree bent down to the sparklings' level to get a closer look. She always adored sparklings, and even thought she'll have at least one of her own.

"Aww, they're so cute!" Acree said. "And I hold them?"

Barricade nodded. "Sure."

Acree beam and took one of the two sparklings around the rebooting Prowl. The sparkling, a black and white one, seem a bit uncertain when the unknown femme bot picked her up. But she relax in her hold when her carrier sent calming waves to their bond, saying that either the femme or the other bots were going to hurt her.

"Well, aren't you just precious."

The sparkling didn't seem please at Acree's excitement but didn't protest either as she get use to Acree. The sparkling was black and white in color and was the biggest of the three which mean she was the oldest.

Bulkhead, who had just recovered, suddenly felt something on his pede. He look down to see the other sparkling that was around Prowl earlier holding his pede. She was the same color as Goldbug, yellow and black, and appears to be the smallest of the three. Bulkhead bent down slightly and did a little wave.

"Hey there little buddy" he smiled.

The sparkling blinked before started to back away from him. Bulkhead, the poor mech, was afraid he scared her due to his size. But that wasn't the case as the littlest sparkling was only trying to get a better look at the big mech. Imagine his surprise when the sparkling put her hands up for him to carry her.

"Up." she says.

Bulkhead smiled, happy to know that the small being wasn't afraid of him. As gentle as he can, the giant mech took the small sparkling in hand and hold her close to his spark chamber. Once she was up, she started looking over, interested by his size.

Ratchet did the same with the last sparkling, the one that was hiding behind Goldbug, and started scanning her. The sparkling he was holding was white and yellow in color and was the second biggest of the three. Ratchet could tell that she was nervous, being hold by an unknown bot can do that to a sparkling. But nevertheless, she behave herself as she somehow knew that Ratchet was medic and was checking if she was functioning properly which she was.

Once he was done, he gave the sparkling to Acree who gave the sparkling she was holding to Prime who gave the sparkling he was holding to Ratchet so the doc-bot can have a look at her as well. Prowl who had finish rebooting himself was holding the sparkling Bulkhead had but for some reason she didn't seem as interested in him as she was in Bulkhead.

"So, how were you two able to have these three sparklings?" Ratchet asked.

Goldbug and Barricade look at each other rather as they thought back the moment that made their sparklings a part of their life cycles 6 years ago.

Final note: The next chapter is a Flash back chapter.

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