Homestead answered the communication feed immediately seeing as it was from his sparkling's mate.
"What?" asked Homestead. Ironhide opened up the vid communication link and Homestead saw the sparkling crying in his creation's arms, he also noticed his creation was covered in energon. "Happened to you? And is that a sparkling?"
Ratchet caressed the sparkling's back struts trying to make him feel better. Ratchet looked at his sire on the vid screen, "This is a sparkling, his name is Orion Pax, and he isn't taking in any energon. You are one of the best medics on Cybertron, would you come and see if there's anything we can do for him?"
Homestead nodded, "Of course Ratchet, we will be there as soon as we can."
Ratchet smiled to his own mate as Homestead went to get his own mate from recharge rather rudely. Closing the link, Ironhide took Orion from Ratchet's Energon covered frame and pulled the sparkling close to his own chassis.
"Go ahead and get cleaned up Ratch, you might rust," stated Ironhide, trying to soothe the small sparkling. Ratchet nodded and walked away quickly toward their own wash racks.
Ironhide walked around the living room area of their apartment and looked for the rag Ratchet had Orion playing with. After finding the rag he picked it up and sat down on the couch setting the sparkling on his lap. Carefully Ironhide wiped the coolant tears off of Orion's visage. Eventually Ironhide had gotten Orion to play with the rag and giggle.
Not long after Orion had become giggly and happy did Ratchet emerge from the wash racks and join them on the couch. Orion looked to the red and white medic that had been missing for a while, holding up his servos he made a grabbing motion.
Ratchet smiled to the sparkling and lifted the mechling. He held the mechling close to his helm. Ratchet nuzzled the small mech's abdominal plates making the sparkling giggle and grab onto Ratchet's chevron. A bell alerted the adult bots to others outside of their apartment.
Ratchet pulled Orion off of his chevron as Ironhide went to answer the door. The door swished open to reveal Ratchet's creators, Homestead and Rescue. As they entered, both of their attention went straight to the sparkling in Ratchet's servos.
"This is the one with the energon problem?" asked Homestead. Ratchet nodded to his sire and turned the sparkling to face the old medic.
The sparkling stared at the new bot, optics wide with panic. Ratchet rubbed Orions back plates trying to calm down the panicking sparkling. Homestead put his cane down and grabbed the sparklings servo and found an energon line. Orion began to whimper at the touch. When Homestead punctured the energon line and gather the energon to scan the sparkling's energon mineral contents.
They had to wait several minuets as Ratchet tried to get Orion to calm down after the test that Homestead had done. After the scanner had gone though a whole list, Orion was missing one vital mineral: The mineral that converted energon into usable energy.
Homestead looked to his creation, "All he needs is a mineral supplement, so just give him the sparkling vitamin pills and he should be golden."
Ratchet sighed with relief, "Thank you sire."
"No problem," stated Homestead, "We had no idea you were expecting again."
"Yeah!" stated Rescue, "Why didn't you tell us?"
"Um, we weren't," started Ratchet. "Ironhide found him while he was out on a walk, he brought him home and we kept him. Since the council is getting rid of the youngling services we thought we would take him instead of him staying on the street."
Rescue smiled happily to see something in his creation's life cycle pick up.
"When, exactly were you going to tell us about him?" asked Homestead annoyed that Ratchet, his own creation would keep something like that away from his own sire.
Ratchet turned to his bondmate and then looked to his creators, "We really never thought of it," stated Ratchet. "It just sort of happened and then when Orion started having energon problems it wasn't exactly our first priority."
Rescue nodded, "Will we get to watch him any time soon?"
Ratchet nodded to his carrier, "Tomorrow would be perfect."
Rescue and Homestead looked to each other then to Ratchet, "So soon?"
"Yes, I have class and I am doing my residency till late. Ironhide has to work tomorrow early."
Both nodded, "I would love to," stated Rescue.
"Stay for the night, Orion has separation anxiety. If he gets to know you he should be fine," explained Ratchet.
Rescue smiled and held out his servo for the small sparkling. Orion looked from the servo extended to him to the bots he knew. Ironhide padded the sparkling on the back struts in encouragement to get Orion into the older bot's care.
Ratchet smiled and leaned down to Orion, picking him up and setting the sparkling on the ground and still with in his grasp.
Orion held out his servo to the larger servo, Ratchet smiled and allowed the sparkling to play with it.
Rescue smiled to the red and blue sparkling, "Awe you're so cute."
Eventually Orion found himself in in recharge, completely tired. Ironhide moved the sparkling from Ratchet's lap and into his carrying hold. As silently as he could, the larger mech put Orion into the crib and tucked the sparkling in.
Quietly Ironhide made his way back to the living area where Ratchet and his creators started talking.
Ironhide watched silently from the door way. Homestead was leaning back, his cane leaning against the chair he was sitting in as his mate leaned into his side. Ratchet smiled as he told his creators a story.
"Ratch," started Ironhide, waiting for Ratchet to look to him, "I'm going to recharge."
Ratchet smiled back as Ironhide walked over to place a kiss on the side of Ratchets helm. "Okay," stated Ratchet smiling up to his larger mate.
Ironhide walked back to the berthroom and fell into a light recharge to keep an optics sensor on the Sparkling recharging at the other end of the room.
The next morning Ironhide was gone before Ratchet had even started to stir from recharge on their shared berth. Orion had slept through the recharge cycle and for that Ratchet was thankful. Orion woke Ratchet earlier than he was suppose to get up, but quietly Ratchet walked to the crib and held the clicking sparkling.
Orion bobbed up and down in Ratchet's servos. The sparkling was giggling and clicking as if trying to have a conversation the the older red and white mech. Ratchet laughed; entering the room with the energon dispenser and grabbing a cube for himself before feeding Orion.
Ratchet had finished his cube and stuck one of his energon feeding tubes in Orions intake, gently Ratchet rubbed the sparkling's back struts. After Orion had fueled up as much as he was able to Ratchet stood taking the sparkling with him. He walked into the guest berthroom and silently opened the door as Orion looked up quizzically to the red and white mech holding him.
Ratchet held Orion close whispering to the red and blue sparkling, "Orion wake them up!"
Ratchet set Orion down onto the berth that Homestead and Rescue shared for the cycle. Orion sat where Ratchet had placed him on the berth, he looked back to Ratchet, arms raised to get Ratchet to pick him up.
Ratchet picked up the sparkling before he started crying, "Carrier, Sire," stated Ratchet.
Rescue on lined his optics to look to his creation and grand creation. Rescue smiled as he heard Homestead turn.
"Go ahead and wait for me outside," whispered Rescue.
Ratchet nodded and took Orion to the living room to play with the sparkling. Rescue emerged from the guest room several clicks later, smiling as he found his creation on the floor playing with the sparkling.
"Awe," stated Rescue, "Who's too cute?" he said kneeling down to the sparkling.
Ratchet smiled to his carrier, looking from the sparkling to his creator.
"I'm awake now and your sire will be up soon, if you need to head off," stated Rescue.
Ratchet nodded to his creator and kissed Orion on the helm and walked out with everything he thought he would need.
Rescue picked up the red and blue sparkling as he waved the sparkling's hand to Ratchet as he left.
Orion watched as Ratchet left the apartment and coolant pooled up in his optics as his vocal processor uttered a sob. Rescue held the sparkling close to his chassis trying to get Orion to calm down.
Only a half Joor had passed till Orion stopped crying, Rescue talked to the sparkling. Eventually Homestead left the berthroom and entered to greet his mate and Grand Creation.
The sparkling looked up to the larger mech who just emerged from the guestroom not too long ago.
Rescue held the sparkling up to face his mate, "Lets take him shopping!"
Homestead looked from the sparkling staring at him to his excited mate. Homestead sighed in defeat leaning on his cane, "Alright. Let's go."
Rescue released a sound of happiness and lead the way out the door.
They had taken to mech mover to the business district of Iacon. Getting off of the mech mover, Rescue and Homestead entered a populated area, mechs and femmes surrounded areas of shops and stepping into some of the sparkling shops to buy little Orion toys and everything else the little mechling could want.
Several joors and many credits later Rescue, Homestead and Orion returned home to find Ironhide had returned to the apartment and was watching the News channel to get updated on what was happening on Cybertron.
Orion saw Ironhide from Rescues servos and reached out to the large mech mewling. Rescue handed the Sparkling over the enforcer mech bonded to his creation.
"So," started Ironhide, "what did ya'll do today?"
Homestead lifed his servos holding the bags of toys and other sparkling stuff. "Just took him shopping."
Ironhide smiled and snuggled the sparkling, noticing the red blanket in his servos. "What do you have there?"
Orion lifted his servo with the blanket showing the larger mech his new possession. Ironhide smiled to the mechling and looked at the blanket, "Very neat."
Waiting for Ratchet to get back from his residency duties at the hospital; Ironhide had visited with Ratchet's creators, talking about the state of the city and playing with the sparkling.
Ironhide had watched as Ratchet's creators left, leaving him alone with the small sparkling. The Sparkling watched as the two mechs left the apartment and looked to Ironhide as soon as he closed the door.
Orion looked around looking for the blanket the two mechs had gotten him.
Ironhide handed the red blanket to the red and blue sparkling as he put It in his mouth sucking on the soft cloth.
"Hold on," stated Ironhide as he pulled the blanket out of the sparklings mouth. He looked through the bag for anything that they could have picked up for the sparkling to play with.
Ironhide looked through the bag the sparkling twitching on his hip gyro. He grabbed a circular container and looked at it; sparkling vitamins. Ratchet's creators were awesome.
Ironhide held the container up to his optics; manuvering the sparkling so he wouldn't fall from his grasp.
"Alright kiddo," Ironhide started getting the Vitamin ready. He placed the ultra squishy vitamin in Orions intake. The sparkling swallowed the pill and looked up to Ironhide waiting for energon.
Ironhide loosened one of his chest plates and placed one of the feeding tubes into Orions mouth plates. Quickly the sparkling sucked on the energon line and fed til he was full.
After several clicks the sparkling was done, and for once didn't regurgitate the energon he had just put into his systems. Ironhide smiled at the small mechs small victory.
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