What is Family?

by Katrina466

A young sparkling, barely old enough to accomplish anything from not knowing how to walk and speak loses everything she held dear to her. Now, she learns what it is to be loved, cared for, praised and everything else that is involved in a family. Rated T because I am unsure for this story or where it will go.

2. Chapter One

Chapter One

~?~

"My findings Prime are nothing good. An entire small quiet town has been destroyed. Bodies lay everywhere; some are young bots while the others are mostly older ones and couples." There is a sound of gasping from the fellow mech is reporting his findings, "By the All Spark; sparklings were killed in this Prime! Innocent sparklings were slaughtered. How could Megatron be so heartless to kill innocent beings?! I will continue to look around for any survivors; perhaps some of the sparklings are still alive." Snapping his attention from looking at a body, he hears his name being called by his fellow search party. Standing straight, the mech walks over to his team and is brought into a silver house through a hole in a wall. Walking through the rumble, he stares at what they have come acrossed."By the All Spark!"

~Knock Out~

The first day is horrible and I mean horrible. First I fed the young sparkling a bottle of low grade energon that should not have taken three joors to get her to eat. From there I gently set her down in the little corner of the medical bay with a silver gate around her so she could not escape; I think Starscream called it a playpen. Surrounding her are the toys that Starscream bought and am thankful for it, even though I hate to admit it. I watch as the little white seekling stare at all the toys before wandering over to the colorful small blocks and picking one up. Scarlet looks at curious and I take that as a sign to head to work. Smiling, I walk over to the patient that has been waiting a few joors for me to repair his arm. Joors fly by quickly and quietly. Finally finishing my work, I decide now would be a good time to check up on the little sparkling since I have not heard a sound from her, not a giggle or chirp. Walking to the playpen I stop at the sight in front of me. Sitting there with a smile on her face is the little white sparkling as her toys are scattered around her. Did I mention the toys are broken? "Scarlet, you were supposed to play with the toys." She chirps something indicating some sort of hatred or dislike for the toys. I wonder if that has to do with her upbringing which it could be. I mean she was in a cabinet away from her siblings and the only one with red optics in her family besides her sire. Sighing, I lean down and pick her up from the middle of the mess. How on Cybertron did she break all of her toys without making a sound? Turning to the sound of doors opening, I find the second in command officer strolling in. He smiles at the seekling before turning his attention to the playpen. His smile turns into a frown.

"What happened here" exclaims Starscream. Startled, the white sparkling buries her face in my neck chirping something in her own little language almost on the verge of tears. "Lower your voice Starscream. You are scaring her." The seeker growls at me but I ignore it and continue, "She somehow destroyed the toys without my knowledge or a sound while I was working. I am getting the feeling she does not like toys." Starscream frowns upon hearing this. He begins thinking about something. Leaving him to think, I hold Scarlet while making a cube of low grade energon for her. She immediately takes it from me and gulps it down slowly, as if it might be taken away from her. "Knockout, keep an eye on her, I am going to the city and buy her something else." With that, he just leaves the same way he arrived. Sighing, I set the sparkling on the ground with her cube. The white sparkling looks at me with her adorable red eyes while sipping her cube of energon. "Be a good girl and sit here while I go clean up the mess you made. No more breaking things." She just stares, as if she understands, but showing no emotion. I wonder what Starscream is going to get Scarlet that will not break? If she does not like toys, then I can imagine that is out of the question.

~Scarlet~

Keeping an emotionless face, I watch as the red mech walks away from me and busies him with cleaning the broken toys I broke earlier. I was never allowed to play with toys so I had to break them. If my creators knew I was playing with them, they would hurt me even though they are not here. Drinking my energon, I look at the door curious and feeling the urge to explore. I set my energon cube down and crawl toward the door without making a sound. Someone comes in and I quietly sit unnoticed by the door before exiting through it when I it stays open for a while longer. Once the door is closed, I find no one in the halls walking so I just crawl through them until I find an open door. The dark walls are high and a bit scary; reminding much of the cabinet I lived in most of the day back home. Within a few minutes, an open door comes into view after turning a corner. A familiar voice I remember from yesterday echoes out into the hall from the room causing me to smile. With my smile still pasted onto my face, I crawl into the room still unnoticed while following the voice. I arrive at the base of the mech's feet, the one sitting in a chair around a table who was speaking. Chirping, I hold my hands up wanting attention and to be picked up by the said mech.

~Megatron~

"-Attacks on the city…" Half way through my sentence, I hear chirping from a sparkling. Looking down at my feet, I find a newly painted white sparkling smiling at me with her red optics filled with happiness as her little arms are held up. My third in command watches silently as I bend down and pick up the sparkling carefully. Cradling her in the crook of my arm, I ask her, "And what are you doing here all by yourself?" She coos at me. "Question: What is a sparkling doing here?" asks the silent mech through recordings. I wonder how she got here by herself. Where is Knock Out? He is supposed to be watching her. Not caring, I grin and show the sparkling to the dark purple mech. "Soundwave, this is the young seekling Knockout rescued yesterday-"

The door slams open the rest of the way to the red medical mech comes in terrified until he sees Scarlet in my arms. His facial features turn from worry to relief within a few seconds. The sparkling in my arms giggles and laughs clapping her servos together sleepily. "Knockout." His entire flawless red frame tenses at his name, "What was Scarlet doing out of your site?" Knockout answers me, "I set her down on the floor with energon thinking she would sit there and drink it while I cleaned up the toys she broke this morning but then a con came-" I cut him off intrigued, "Broken toys? Tell me more." This could be a good thing. Looking at the sparkling, I find her sound asleep as I listen to her guardian explain what happened. "I placed her in the play pen that Starscream set up with toys for her. She went toward the blocks and I decided she would be fine so I went to work. A few hours later, I checked on her to find everything broken. She broke the toys without making a sound my lord. Scarlet does not like toys apparently." Then that means she will be a good decepticon in the future. If we can get her walking and talking soon, then her training can begin soon. Smiling, I lean back in my chair holding the sparkling thinking about all the possible ways she can help us. Her quietness could make her an excellent spy or she could be an assassin. There is even the option of torturing prisoners if she wanted.

Knockout returns to the med bay no longer worried about the seekling while I hold the little one in my arm. She does not stir as I continue to talk to Soundwave about my next battle plan as well as her future as a decepticon. The joor goes by quickly and turns into two joors before the doors open. Looking up from my conversation, I find my second in command Starscream entering. He bows before greeting me, "My lord. I was told I could find Scarlet here." I roll my optics at him, "Yes, now what do you want?" He is not fazed at all by my statement of hatred right now. Usually he always recoils frightened when I raise my voice, but apparently not today. Perhaps it has to do with the sparkling. I heard that seekers were very protective of sparklings but I do not know how true that is. "I came to retrieve Scarlet for Knockout. I have bought her something new and am hoping she will enjoy it better than the toys." Sighing, I stand up and hand the child to him, careful not to stir the little one. "Do any harm to her-" He cuts me off in midsentence. "My lord, I am a seeker. And as a seeker, like all other seekers, I know how to take care of sparklings and protect them. Never would I harm such a little one." With that, I watch as he leaves the room.

~Starscream~

Walking out of the room holding the sleeping seekling, I smile at the little one. I know she will enjoy this present much better than those toys. And this one will like her as well. The only noise in the hall is the sound of my feet against the cold metal floors which causes her to stir but not wake up. Turning a corner, I enter through a door and hand Scarlet to the red mech who sighs in relief once she is in his arms. No one really trusts me with the sparkling, how disappointing. Yet I believe this sparkling is adorable and I would do anything to keep her safe, especially from Lord Megatron's wrath. As I go to leave the sick bay, Knockout asks, "Are you sure she will like this gift and try not to kill it or break it like the toys?" Chuckling, I reply, "I am sure she will not harm it but love it if anything." With that I leave the room happy with my choice for the seekling. Hopefully she loves this toy as much as it will love her.

~Scarlet~

Feeling hungry, I open my optics to find the red mech holding me. But the other mech was holding me. What happened? Remembering my hunger, I chirp and forget about how I fell asleep in one mech's arms only to wake in another mech's arms. The red mech smiles at me before carrying me as he walks somewhere in the room that I have become familiar with and called the sick bay. I chirp again, hungry since I never finished my last feeding and really wanted food. "Scarlet, I am getting you some energon. Calm down." But I am starving! How can I calm down when I am starving and you actually feed me unlike my creators! Food please! The mech chuckles at my nonsense chirping that he cannot understand. He holds out a cube of low-grade energon for me. Carefully, my little hands wrap around the cube as he helps guide it to my mouth and holds it there. In no time, the energon is gone and I am as happy as can be.

"Now that you are no longer grumpy." Begins the mech. I was not grumpy. He laughs at me as I huff and chirp out my opinion. "You were too grumpy Scarlet. Now that you are fed, Starscream has found you something else that will keep you entertained and safe unlike the toys. And you will be unable to break it." Unable to break it? Entertainment? Keep me safe? What kind of toy is he talking about? I have never heard of a toy that is unbreakable, entertaining, and able to keep me red mech sets me down inside the gate that I remember my creators calling a playpen. Sitting in front of me is a red box with nothing special about it. I look at the mech not sure if I am supposed to open it or if it is for someone else. I have never received anything. Sensing my uneasiness, the mech gently gives me a push toward the box, encouraging me to open it. Crawling toward it, I finally sit in front of it where I can open it and stand on my servos. Pulling the lid off, I peer inside only to fall back in surprised as a half grown Cybertronian cat pounces at me.

The cat licks my face over and over again until I am in a laughing fit. Once it finishes licking my face, it climbs off me and obediently sits in front of me waiting for a command. "Scarlet, this is your new playmate and guardian when no one is around. Her name is Azure." Azure? I like that name. It means blue and she is blue. I tackle the cat, wrapping my arms around her neck giggling as she tries to lick me. This is the best present ever! I like this mech even more, so much more that I may adopt him as my new creator. I may, that does not mean I will. I still am unsure about him. He returns to his work as a patient comes in and coos at me before sitting still to be fixed. The feline licks me on the face before bouncing backwards, standing in a crouching position. I crawl toward her, but she bounces out of reach shaking her head. Catch? How am I supposed to catch my feline?

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I do not own any characters from the Transformers shows. The only one I do own is the adorable sparkling known as Scarlet.