Chapter Five
Katrina: I apologize for not posting this chapter sooner. I hope you all enjoy it.
Nicolette: Jerk.
Katrina: And that would be my friend Nicolette whose character is Star. And I am not a jerk.
Nicolette: You are for not posting earlier.
Katrina: Do you want to try working with 30 little kids then coming home preparing for and start school only to be busy all the time?
Nicolette: Excuses excuses.
Katrina: *Sigh* Besides that, I hope you all enjoy the chapter and review. Remember, I do not own anything Transformers, wish I did, except for Solarflare and Star is owned by Nicolette.
~Solarflare~
Someone gently rubs my back gently saying soothing words. I snuggle against my adopted carrier as close as possible wanting nothing but to sleep. However, the servo does not go away rather it continues to rub my back. "Solarflare, it is time to get up." Having finally woke up; I register the voice as my adopted sire. Carefully I push myself into a sitting position, careful of my tiny wings that are sensitive and sleepily ask, "Opy?"
He smiles warmly before carefully picking me up and cradling me. "Good morning Solarflare. I have a surprise for you." A surprise? My little spark begins to beat fast frightened, if that is possible. Struggling, I try to get down chirping in a frightened voice scared of surprises. "Calm down little one. It is a good surprise, one you will like." One I will like? Ceasing struggling, I look up at him chirping my response of curiosity. As soon as I see the energon cube of low grade in his hand, I reach out for it while pushing any thoughts about this surprise my sire has in store for me. He helps hold the bottle up so I do not choke while drinking my fill of energon.
When I finish my energon, Optimus carries me out of the room waiting for Fifi to follow before locking the door behind him. I watch the ceiling come and go by as he moves through the hall with me in his arms. Entering the med bay with my sire, the medical mech turns toward us and smiles at our arrival. "I was wondering when you were going to bring her here." I watch as Ratchet walks over somewhere and says something to someone that I cannot see in a hush voice. I look at Opy and ask in a scared voice, "Opy?" Sensing my fear, he holds me to his chassis allowing the warmth from his spark to calm me. It is so warm and calming that my fear disappears because of it. Ratchet walks back over with a yellow blob in his arms; no, blob is not the correct word….. It is another sparkling but it's yellow! I begin chirping excitedly and immediately want down as well as the other sparkling by the looks of it. I have never got to meet another sparkling besides my brothers. Opy walks toward a corner of the room holding me still. How is he able to keep a good hold on me whenever I struggle or fight back or want down? That will forever be a mystery for me, but I do not care as long as he does not harm me. "This is your surprise, Solarflare, to spend a day with another sparkling. Bumblebee is a few vorns older than you, but still young enough to play with you." I chirp happily as I am set down in the playpen. Fifi lays down in front of the playpen as Opy says good bye to me. I kiss his cheek before walking away to head to work no doubt.
"Hi. I'm Bee." I look at him and smile chirping, "Hi Bee! I am Solarflare." He looks at me confused before finally having understood what I was saying with a smile. "How you not speak?" I prove to him I can say three words, well names, "Star. Fifi. Opy." He looks at me weird but soon smiles, "Want to learn to say more?" I nod my head excited to learn more, my little wings flapping. He pulls out some toys, setting them in front of me. I growl at the colorful blocks, despising any form of toys due to my real creators. Bee says, "Colors." I snap out of my phase and look at him before understanding why he got the toys out. "Colors." Says Bee again. Oh! "Coooo?" The older yellow sparkling sounds out the word for me, "C-ah-l-er-s." Trying again, I say the word, determine to learn. "Cooverr? Cahver? Cower? Cowler?" He giggles at my attempts and I smile with him laughing also at my mistakes. Hey, if you knew how hard it is trying to learn words you should already know. Being a quick learner, I am able to say color(s), blue, white, red, and yellow. Along with that, I am able to say Bee's name also, or as I say his name, 'Bee.' Bee is so nice and fun. He tries to get me to play with the blocks but I will not even go near them after learning the few colors. I shake my head and always find a corner.
Ratchet comes over with a cube and a bottle of low-grade energon. He hands the cube to my yellow friend. Then the medic stares at me as I hold my hands up. Carefully, he picks me up and lets out the breath he was holding after Fifi does not move, indicating he is fine since I am not hurt. I hold my hands out for the energon which soon I am drinking from as Ratchet rocks me even though I know he does not want to. Bee comes over and sits at his feet drinking his. The rocking and warm energon makes me begin to feel sleepy, but I refuse to close my optics and finish my energon. The medic takes the bottle away and places it on a table, while he continues to rock me. I shake my head and struggle to be put down. "Fifi!" The blue feline lifts her head to look at me, but she then goes back to sleep. Traitor! How dare she not help me? Ratchet chuckles, any tension gone now, "You are sleepy." "Ratchet, can I be rocked too?" asks the yellow blob. Nodding his head, Ratchet allows Bee to climb into his lap also and falls asleep. I stay awake not really wanting to go to sleep yet. Soon my optics betray me as I fall asleep next to Bee while being held and rocked by Ratchet. I guess I am sleep, but I want Opy to rock me to sleep.
~Ratchet~
After the two sparkling finally fall asleep, I continue to rock them while leaning back to get some rest myself, or in this case, a break from work. As soon as Optimus dropped the sparkling off, Bumblebee made it his job to teach her some colors and say those words. I could hear them giggling and laughing all morning. But the one time I checked on them, Bumblebee could not get the younger sparkling to play with the blocks. She kept chirping something angrily. I wonder what this little one has been through, after all she was found alone with a feline that is over protective. At least she ate, but Optimus must be spoiling her if she tried to resist taking a nap. The yellow sparkling on the other hand always falls asleep after lunch; however, Bee usually never asks to be rocked. I guess he did not want to be separated from his playmate even during naptime.
A few breems later, Bumblebee begins to stir. He looks at me with his blue optics. "If you want to go play, be quiet. Solarflare is still asleep." The yellow minibot looks over at the other sparkling nodding his head but makes no action to move. "Ratchet, why she not speak much or play?" "I do not know Bumblebee. It might have had to do with her biological creators or her upbringing. Seekers are different when it comes to sparklings." He nods his head, looking at the white sparkling sadly. Even though the first day this little sparkling scared me because of her eyes and the over protective feline, now she has found a place in my spark just like she has with Optimus and Star. I feel sad for whatever this young sparkling has been through in the short life that she has been given.
The door to the med bay opens as two familiar voices echo into the room causing me to groan. A red and yellow or gold, whatever his paint is, walks in. They are twins but also known as the prankster twins. The red one known as Sideswipe spots me still sitting with the sparklings and grins cheerfully, "Hey Ratchet! We brought some paint for the sparklings-OW!" "Come on man, what the heck was that for?" complains the yellow mech known as Sunstreaker. I throw another wrench at their heads while Bumblebee giggles. "Quiet. The other sparkling is still sleeping." The bots set the paint down before walking over to me and cooing at the little white femme who still is sleeping. As if it was planned, Solarflare starts to online rubbing her optics before opening them. She stares at the twins who stare at her.
I wait a few minutes and growl when the twins practically jump back running into a berth exclaiming "DECEPTICONS! SHE'S A DECEPTICON!" Sideswipe states, "Quick Bumblebee, run! She'll kill you!" While Bee stares at the twins weird, all the noise begins to make the femme cringe and cry. I bounce Solarflare lightly hoping she will calm down all while the feline gets up hearing the sparkling wail. Fifi begins stalking toward the twin bots growling dangerously.
"Scrap! We ticked the decepticon's feline off!" "Run bro run!" They take off out of the med bay with Fifi giving chase. Their screams can be heard throughout the base. Not long after the twins were chased out of the bed bay, Solarflare calms down. Standing up, I set both sparklings in the playpen and stare at the door as it opens. Fifi comes walking through the dragging Sideswipe who is clinging to his brother's foot stating, "I am not going through this along!" The yellow twin tries to get free of his brother but is unable to. Chuckling, I grab a wrench and walk toward the twins.
~Star~
After having heard the twins yelling throughout the base, I walked into the hall only to spot Fifi running after them growling. For a moment, I thought Ratchet was after the twins again for pulling a prank. Chucking at the twins, I figure they must have done something to scare Solarflare. Smiling, I watch as Fifi finally latches onto Sideswipe's ankle and begins dragging him back to the med bay. Sunstreaker laughs only to be yanked down by his twin who refuses to let go. They yell at me to help them but I just chuckle and walk slowly behind them. Finally they disappeared from my view. The black and white mech looks in the direction Fifi went dragging the twins. "Did something happen?" I nod my head, having sensed Solarflare's distress earlier but now I can tell she is calm. "They must have made Solarflare cry so Fifi went after them." Prowl nods his head in understanding before continuing on his way.
Inside the med bay I find the twins being beat up by Ratchet who is smiling with Fifi growling at the two young mechs as a warning not to try and escape. I chuckle at the sight of them. Giggling to my left catches my attention. Turning to the source of giggles, I find Bumblebee and Solarflare watching the two young mechs being beat up. What has me laughing is the pink paint they are covered in and the wrench they paint pink. Why a wrench was on the ground in the first place, I have no clue. As for the paint, I can only think of the twins who brought that. The door opens behind me so I look behind me to find Optimus stand there staring at the mess and the bots. He asks, "What is this all about?" I tell him, "Do not ask. Just do not ask Optimus." He sighs and shakes his head in disappointment. Just then, the white sparkling covered in pink paint notices us, "Star! Opy!" Bumblebee turns and smiles at us with a wave. Solarflare walks over to us and holds her hands out. Optimus picks the messy sparkling up. "Hello little one, did you have fun today?" She nods her head before pointing at the other sparkling, "Bee! Colors!" Bumblebee explains, "I taught her some colors today. Can we play tomorrow?" I nod my head.
Ratchet comes over and scowls at the pink wrench but only smiles at the sparklings covered in the paint. "Solarflare behaved very well today. I had a problem trying to get her to take a nap, but she finally fell asleep. You are spoiling her too much Optimus." My sparkmate chuckles while smiling. "Perhaps I am old friend." The medic smiles before picking up Bumblebee, "Well it does not matter. It was after waking up from her nap that chaos broke loose. The twins scared sparkling. By the looks of it, these two need a bath." I smile, "They sure do. Thank you for keeping her today, Ratchet. We'll bring her by tomorrow to play with Bumblebee." The yellow sparkling grins, his optics filled with excitement and some sort of determination. Optimus and I leave the med bay to give the sparkling a bath with Fifi close behind. Solarflare says, holding her hands out with a disgusted look on her face, "Pink."
I fill a sink up with warm soapy water. I take a few toys that Ratchet gave to us yesterday and put them in the water. Optimus carries the red optic sparkling before gently placing her in the sink. She sits there staring at the water and bubbles along with the toys not sure what to do. All of a sudden, she begins crying and holding her hands out while calling out, "Opy! Opy! Opy!" He does not move to pick her up rather let her hold one of his fingers, "No little one. You must be washed. The water will not harm you." She stutters saying the word in between sniffles, "W-w-wat-t-t-er?" I smile at her as well as Optimus. "Yes little one. Water." She finally calms down and looks at the toy in her tiny hands while we wash the paint off of her. Solarflare looks up at me when I stop. Grinning, she splashes a little water on me. I quickly splash her back playfully until a water war starts and I hide behind Optimus as my shield. He chuckles before plucking the wet sparkling out of the water and drying her off. "Opy! Opy! Water!" She tries to crawl back toward the water but fails. She huffs, throwing another silent tantrum.
While Optimus holds the sparkling, I quickly warm up a bottle of energon and hand it to him. Solarflare sees the energon and completely forgets about her tantrum. It makes me wonder if she ever had a bath and who raised her before this. Shaking my head, I watch as Optimus properly feeds the sparkling. She looks at me and Optimus, her little red optics sparkling with happiness that is overflowing from them. I do not care if she was the child of a decepticon; Solarflare is the most adorable sparkling I have ever encountered so far. If I ever meet her creators, they are so dead. Once the sparkling is sound asleep, I ask Optimus, "If you ever met her creators, would you give Solarflare back to them?" He looks at me sad, "Star, if giving them back means endangering her, no, I would not. However, if it means she would be just as safe with her creators who miss her and wish to have her back, I would give her back." It hurts, but if they really wanted to have her back, then I guess we could give them back, but by the looks of it, she was mistreated and I will not give her back to them no matter what Optimus says.
Katrina: That's a wrap people! Thank you everyone for all your reviews and I apologize for not getting this chapter up sooner.
Solarflare: *comes in riding on Fifi* Bye! *Fifi takes her out*
Katrina: I wonder where her caretaker is-
Starscream: *bursts into the room* SOLARFLARE! *see's Katrina and points a claw at her* You! Where did that sparkling go?!
Katrina: *blink blink* You're not scary.
Starscream: Tell me where she is now! I don't want to die!
Katrina: Die? I thought Megatron was going to kill Knockout-
Starscream: Star is going to kill me if I don't find that sparkling! *runs out of the room*
Katrina: *smiles* Stay tune for the next chapter. I don't know when I'll get it up, but hey, it'll get posted at some point.
Nicolette: It better get posted. You need to stop disappointing your readers.
Solarflare: *comes in* Buh-Bye!