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Chapter Three
~Optimus~
We spent the rest of the afternoon quietly watching the young white femme sparkling play. My mate and I agreed that the sparkling shall be known as Solarflare. I think it fits the young sparkling. The pale blue feline that we named Fifi, is busy playing a game with the seekling. When the seekling gets to the feline, she would walk away from Solarflare. If the sparkling does not make it to her, Fifi would stand there until she does. By the looks of it, the feline and sparkling are playing an unusual game of catch that is helping to teach Solarflare to walk. I am impressed by how intelligent Fifi is with this. After some time, the sparkling begins to slow down to the point where she was nodding off.
A red scan from Ratchet indicates he is checking on the sparkling. Our medic states, "She needs one last feeding and put down to sleep for the night." My mate, Star, goes to warm up a cube bottle of low grade energon for the sparkling. A small movement touches me pede. Looking down, I find sleepy red optics staring up at me with little white arms held in the air. Bending down, I carefully pick up Solarflare from the floor and hold her comfortably, the same way Star held her earlier. This young sparkling is a miracle to have survived this long and in such good conditions during this time of war. It truly is amazing how this sparkling is with us at this moment. Too many have been found dead and breaks my heart to hear such news, but the fact I am holding a living sparkling fills it with joy.
Star comes over and hands me the cube of energon for the sparkling. Solarflare sees it and immediately holds her tiny servos up for the energon. I let her tiny servos grasp the cube and begin sucking on it. "Optimus, hold the end up so she does not choke on air." I hold the end of the cube up so there are no air bubbles. Star stands beside me, correcting every little thing from how I am holding Solarflare to how I am supposed to feed her. I do not argue with my femme because these things are important and I need to know that if I am going to help take care of her. But I also know this small sparking has found a way into Star's spark as well as mine in such short time.
After feeding the sparkling, she curls up against me before falling into a recharge. Ratchet had declared nothing wrong with her earlier, so Star and I take my leave, Fifi sound asleep on the floor in the med bay. She only lifted her head before going back to sleep when we left, apparently trusting us enough to keep her safe. With Solarflare cradle in my arms, Star and I stay quiet as we walk through the halls that just happen to be clear since it is somewhat late. The quietness is soothing, helping relax me a bit.
A door opens ahead letting a black and white mech out as he reads a datapad. He hears our footsteps and looks up at us with a small smile. "Optimus, there is a meeting early in the morning that your presence is required." He stops in speaking when he notices the sparkling in my arms. "Is that a sparkling sir?" The dark blue femme besides me rolls her optics and asks, "What else could it be, a toy?" The mech looks at my femme then at the sparkling in disbelief, not sure if I spoke the truth or if the little one truly is a toy. Sighing, I inform him, "Prowl, this is indeed a sparkling. Star discovered her while patrolling. I will attend the meeting in the morning. Thank you for informing me, now please take the rest of the night off." The mech nods his head before walking away, exhaustion showing just a little.
Continuing down the halls, Star and I arrive at our shared quarters. Entering the room, I feel drained of energy in need of a good nights recharge. This sparkling is a handful, but she will be loved and taken good care of until her creators are located. Sitting on the berth, I allow my femme to lie down beside me before lying down next to her. I look at the sparkling who is lying on my stomach sucking on her thumb. Smiling, I close my optics hoping this little one will sleep through the night. Little did I know this first night with the sparkling would not go as I wished it to go.
~Solarlfare~
After the mech and femme showed me love and fed me, I fell asleep in the mech's arms filled with love. However I enter a state of dreams that are not good. Opening my optics, I find myself in the cabinet my creators decided I will live in when my optics turned red and not blue like my siblings. I peak my head out to find my two brothers sitting in the middle of the room playing with small colorful blocks. The silver one calls me over to play with them, so I crawl over to them and sit between them playing. The tower would fall and we would burst out laughing. Soon our laughing caught the attention of our creators. My carrier took my brothers upstairs while my sire yelled at me. "You piece of scrap metal! You are not supposed to play with my boys! You will corrupt them!" He hits me over and over again, energon tears streaming out of my optics as I cried out loud, calling for my carrier to come help. Yet I never received a response from them, not even a response from my siblings which confused me. I just sat there crying as my sire beat me.
~Optimus~
Not long after falling into a recharge, a piercing scream fills the air startling me to sit straight up. At first I thought it was an invasion, but then I remembered the sparkling that was sleeping on my chest. Looking around, I find the little white femme bawling her optics out on the floor, wails becoming more hysterical and louder. I must have sent her flying off of my chest when I heard the scream. A femme's voice belonging to Star complains, "Optimus, shut her up! I am trying to sleep here!" Sighing, I walk over to the seekling and pick her up.
Solarflare begins to struggle, fighting to get away from me for some odd reason. Keeping a good hold on the white sparkling, I apologize, "Forgive me Solarflare, I did not mean to throw you-" I am cut up as Star sits straight up on the berth demanding, "You did what?!" Cringing, I tell her, "I was startled by the scream and thought it was someone hurt or an attack on the base. I did not notice when I sat up that Solarflare went flying off of me." Star glares at me angrily, but I ignore it as I try to keep a hold of the fighting sparkling. After a few nanoclicks, I hold the crying seekling to my chest and lightly bounce her as I send waves of calmness to her. In no time, Solarflare has calmed down enough where she has the hiccups.
Smiling at the little femme, I inform her, "You are safe little one; no one will harm you here." She sniffs before hiccupping after it. Small red optics look up at me before one of her small servos rub an optic tiredly. I catch my femme watching me with a smile glued to her face, happiness filling her optics not just because of the quietness but because I just did something without her explaining how to do it. Small chirps from Solarflare catch our attention. Looking at the sleepy sparkling, we listen as she tries to say something through her chirps. By the sound of it, Solarflare is talking about something sad but we cannot understand it. I wonder if it has to do with her waking up screaming. I suggest, "We should begin teaching her to speak." Star nods her helm before laying down only for some other bot to scream somewhere in base. She demands, "Optimus, take care of it NOW!"
Still holding the half asleep sparkling, I carry her out of my quarters with me, thinking it would be better to have her with me rather than risk her falling asleep only to wake up like she did before. Walking down the halls, many autobots stick their heads out asking what is with all the screaming or what is Ratchet's problem. Indeed the screaming is coming from Ratchet in the med bay. The medical bay comes into view, but upon entering it, I am surprised to find it a wreck. Tools are scattered throughout the room while berths and tables have been flipped with other miscellaneous items thrown about. Many of the tools and miscellaneous items are either broken or whole.
A fierce growling catches my attention as well as yelling from our chief medical officer. "GET THAT FRAGGING BEAST AWAY FROM ME!" Ratchet is standing on top of a table against a wall scared to death holding onto a metal rod out in front of him. The pale blue feline is standing in front of him on the floor growling. Fifi puts her front paws on the table getting ready to attack the CMO. The bot screeches, "OPTIMUS HELP!" Just as I go to say something, Solarflare begins to chirp tiredly. The sparkling's chirps calms down the Cybertronian feline who runs over to us and sits on the ground with her tail wagging from side to side. The white seekling begins to struggle or tries to climb down so I gently set her on her pedes. Solarflare slowly takes a few steps toward the feline before hugging Fifi's neck happily.
Looking back at the medic, I find him still standing on the table holding the metal rod out shaking with fear. "Ratchet, it is safe to come down. Fifi will not harm you anymore." As Ratchet slowly climbs off the table with his optics locked on the feline who lays down, Solarflare leans against Fifi who then wraps her tail around the sparkling. Within a few seconds, Solarflare has fallen asleep as well as Fifi. I ask the CMO, "May I ask what happened?" Ratchet glares at me before throwing his servos in the air, "Oh I don't know! Maybe when that mischievous sparkling of a decepticon woke up screaming, that fragging feline guardian of hers began attacking me! Look at the mess she created!" He holds out his servos to the mess in the medical bay. He looks at me with dark blue angry optics, "Optimus, they cannot stay here! You have to take them out of here; away from us all before they kill us. Her creators have to be looking for her and gave her that feline as a guardian for a reason. That guardian is trained to attack any autobot who comes near or upsets that sparkling!"
Shaking my helm, I try to calm the medic down. It is obvious he is tires as well suspicious of the sparkling and is trying to find an excuse to rid her just because she has red optics. "Ratchet, I do not think Fifi intentionally would hurt you. Solarflare must have dreamt of something awful before waking up screaming. It did not do her any good that I accidentally tossed her from my chest when I sat up quickly, having forgotten she was there. Fifi was only trying to get you to take her to us so she may help calm Solarflare down. I believe she was aggressive toward you because you would not help her and due to you think she was going to truly harm you. Solarflare is staying here. I will take Fifi with me to my quarters from now on." He stares at me before grumbling, "Fine, but I still do not trust either one of them. How do we know the sparkling is a decoy while the feline is a spy for the decepticon?!"
Sniffling has us both staring at a now awake white sparkling on the verge of crying, bursting into tears. She must have heard Ratchet yelling and woke her up. The feline of pale blue gently licks the sparkling's face, trying to calm her down. Sighing, an action that is becoming a bad habit of mine, I pick Solarflare up, bouncing her a bit with a wave of calmness and security flowing over her. Resting her head against me, I decide it is time to leave and let Ratchet get some rest. "Ratchet, until her creators are found, Solarflare and Fifi are staying with us. Fifi, come." The Cybertronian cat jumps to her paws and follows me out of the medical bay. Upon entering my quarters, I find my mate sound asleep where I left her. Fifi watches carefully as I place Star next to Star before lying on the other side of her to prevent another incident from happening like what happened earlier. Closing my opitcs, I slip in a recharge happy to have my sparkmate here and now a sparkling I have come to consider my own in little than an orn. Then there is the seekling's guardian Fifi who will do anything to protect the little one. At least now I know this is what it feels like to have a family and it fills my spark with warmth and joy.
~No One's~
Somewhere in a dark base filled with decepticons with red optics, a certain red mech arrives to the throne room frightened with his report ready. He bows before speaking, "Scarelt is g-gone m-my lord-d…" The dark mech who was leaning against an arm opens his red optics that is filled with anger that are directed at the red mech dangerously. In a threatening voice, the dark mech , "Knock Out, you better run because when I catch you, I will tear you limb from limb!" Without being told twice, Knock Out takes off on a dead run out of the room with Megatron chasing and firing after him.
The heavy red metal bot trips over his own pedes landing into a wall, leaving a dent where he hit it. Sitting up, the mech rubs his head only to freeze to find a gun in his face ready to fire at him. Cautiously, he looks into the eyes of his lord Megatron frightened. "Give me one reason why I should not kill you," demands the dark lord. Soft footsteps walk toward the two mechs before stopping and playing a recording. The angry dark lord of the decepticons keeps his gun ready to fire in the red mech's face as he watches the recording of Azure with Scarlet on her back leaving the base. Scarlet is laughing and chirping about something. "So she went outside to explore. Soundwave, find her and bring her back alive!" The tall silent mech leaves as silently as he came, determined to find the sparkling.
Lowering his gun, the dark mech looks at Knock Out, "Don't think you will get off easily. After all, this is your fault for not keeping a closer optic on Scarlet." Before the red medic knew what was happening, he is thrown against the black wall, his finish getting scratched more. Megatron runs a claw down the squirming mech's chest, leaving behind a deep scratch. Satisfied with his work, Megatron tosses the scratched up medic into the opposite wall with a bit of information, "Let this be a warning Knock Out. If Scarlet is not found within a week, you will be joining the All Spark." He walks away, upset about the loss of the sparkling as the red mech stands on his own pedes trembling, terrified about what will happen if the sparkling is not found.
This story is fun to write and I hope you all are enjoying it.
Thank everyone for being patient for a new chapter. Thank you also for reading and please leave a review.
Special thanks to AllSpark Princess for reviewing.
I do not own any characters from the Transformers shows. The only one I do own is the adorable sparkling known as Scarlet now known as Solarflare. I do not own the femme Star, that belongs to my friend.
In the next chapter, will Ratchet come to terms with the sparkling or will he still think she and Fifi are decepticon spies? What will happen to Knock Out? What will happen to Solarflare? Keep an optic out for the next chapter.