*spinning on the chair absentmindedly*
Ya know..I wonder what'll happen if Sideswipe became the centre attention for both Autobots and Decepticons. That might be cool. But I don't want Sunny to kill me, so..yeah. This is where my friend and I shows up, but we're the..how'd you say..background characters. We'll only show up like, two or three times in here...or more..
Yada yada yada..blah blah..not mine, enjoy.
"So..put it straight, Wheeljack manage to blow his lab again but he didn't hurt himself, instead, he changed Sideswipe into a..sparkling?"
Ratchet nods his head but he couldn't help but snicker at Prime's tone. Even Prowl and Jazz couldn't believe what they're hearing. And Jazz's 16-year-old human, Jeazmyne Hayle, is currently perched on her guardian's shoulders. Her long black hair tied neatly into a ponytail.
"In human words, a sparkling is a baby, right?" she asked. Everyone nods their head. Jeazmyne couldn't hold back the huge smile that threatens to take over her face. "This is awesome! I've never seen a sparkling before! Can I go see him?"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Jeaz," came another voice. Ratchet's little human and Jeazmyne's best friend, Leanna Zeal, steps into the office. "Sunstreaker's been somewhat..protective of his twin..or in this case now, little brother. The mech just wouldn't let go," smirk the girl.
Leanna has sharper, intimidating eyes than Jeazmyne's, and her shoulder-length locks for hair also has some shade of brown rather than Jeazmyne's jet black. Jeazmyne had just finished her school project when she heard the news and Leanna was just cleaning up her and Ratchet's tools.
"You're saying..Sunny turned from I-don't-give-a-slagging-care-'bout-you mode to stay-away-from-my-baby-or-you're-slag mode? Huh..who knew.." she said in awe.
"Sunshine ain't tha' type ta care 'bout others, save Sides o'course. But I've never seen 'im tha' protective befo'," Jazz smirk.
"Apparently, Ratchet did say that Sideswipe's current form IS a newborn, therefore he's in a very vulnerable form. As a sibling, Sunstreaker has to protect his brother at all cost. And in case you have forgotten, they are still twins," Prowl points out.
"He's right, think of it this way though, with Sideswipe being a sparkling, he can't prank us anymore," beamed Jeazmyne. Prowl, Jazz, Ratchet and Optimus seem to realize the truth and look a little..glad. However, Leanna has her doubts.
"I don't think all sparklings are innocent..you know what they say, never judge a book by it's cover and I'm guessing Sides is going to give Hell for all of us,"
"Don't jinx us!" everyone cried, except Prowl who only hope that what the young human medic-in-training had said doesn't come true.
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Little Sideswipe giggled happily as his brother gently toss him up in the air. "Ya know Sides, I'm starting to miss the days we've spent together as younglings," chuckled Sunstreaker.
After Ratchet had informed Optimus, Sunstreaker had retreated to his and Sideswipe's shared room along with the happily dozing sparkling. But after a few while, Sideswipe decided not to sleep anymore and start to squirm against his brother. He quickly informed Ratchet to prepare some low-grade for the sparkling. And in the mean time, the yellow warrior tried to keep his hungry brother occupied.
Sunstreaker kept tossing and tickling his brother but is still mindful on how he pushes his brother even though he has no knowledge in sparkling whatsoever. Then again, he has been living with Sideswipe all his life so he knew what his brother needed.
After much tossing, giggling and tickling, Sideswipe's internal cooling fans kicked in and Sunstreaker stopped his attacks. The sparkling cooed and played with his brother's fingers. Nibbling and sucking on it as his blue optics gaze up at the mech that kept sending him loveable pulses through their bond.
Just then, a knock could be heard and Sunstreaker place his brother on a pillow he usead as a temporary mattress for Sideswipe and cover him with a nice and warm thermal blanket. Newborns aren't strong enough to regulate their engine's heat so a thermal blanket is necessary at all cost.
Opening the door, he saw Ratchet and the girls perching on either side of the medic's shoulders.
"Here's the low-grade, and a bottle for Sideswipe. Hopefully it's small enough for him," Ratchet hand the things to Sunstreaker who thanked him. Jeazmyne kept peeking over Sunstreaker's shoulders but Leanna doesn't seem to care about what happened to Sideswipe.
"Can I see Sideswipe? Ever since Jazz told me what a sparkling is, I've been dying to see one," she bat her eyes sweetly to Sunstreaker. Leanna simply folded her arms out of habit and pushed her glasses up.
After hesitating whether he should or not, Sunstreaker sighs and brought Sideswipe out. Jeazmyne squeeled at the sight. To her, the sparkling is ADORABLE and she couldn't help but to gently rub Sideswipe's cheekplates.
"Wow Sunstreaker, never knew you were this cute when you're a baby," Leanna smirk when Sideswipe curled into an even tighter ball after Jeazmyne rubs his cheeks. Both Leanna and Jeazmyne giggled at Sunstreaker's expression.
"Right..can you guys leave now? I need to feed him and find a sparkling-sitter, my shift starts in two hours," Sunstreaker said. Ratchet nods his head and the girls bid goodbye before their carrier turned and leave.
Closing the door, Sunstreaker place Sideswipe back on his pillow and poured the low-grade into the bottle. Then he picks Sideswipe up and place him at the crook of his left arm before placing the tube of the bottle at the sparkling's mouth. Sideswipe latched onto the bottle and happily sucked its contents.
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As off-shift bots flooded the rec room, Sunstreaker had just finished bathing Sideswipe. And the experience was like the Pit! The lil' red devil bounced in his bath tub and practically spilled nearly 3/4 of the water onto Sunstreaker. And he manage to knock down Sunstreaker's expensive solvent and left not a single drop, right now the gladiator feels like tearing someone in half.
Stepping into the rec room, he noticed that most of the bots are watching him funny, then Bluestreak cried, "Is that your sparkling! Primus, who's the carrier? I didn't know you were bonded, c'mon, who's the lucky bot?"
Then everyone wants to know and started to crowd around the yellow bot. Sunstreaker doesn't know what to do, usually he doesn't deal with this sort of thing and Sideswipe is sleeping in his arms. Apparently, he decided that now's the time to wake up with a cry.
Everyone winced and step backwards at the high-pitched volume. Hefting his brother up, Sunstreaker rocks and cooed at the sparkling until he calmed down. Then he lowered Sideswipe until he rested on his arm again.
"DON'T try to do that again, you could've suffocate him," warned Sunstreaker. "And this is Sideswipe by the way, Wheeljack turned him into this."
Everyone stared open-mouthed at the sparkling, disbelief can be seen clearly on their faceplate.
"I need to get to my shift later and I need someone to look after him, but...I don't know who to pick," sighs the yellow twin. Mostly at times he doesn't trust his companions and decided to do things on his own or with Sideswipe's help, except in this case. Then Jazz bounced into the room happily declaring he wants to sparkling-sit.
This made Sunstreaker give him a long, odd look. Sideswipe cooed and twitter as he plays with his small feet and fingers. For him, as long as that nice, warm feeling doesn't disappear, he'll always feel safe and the mech that's carrying him, gave him the gentlest touches he could ever feel. Until said mech hands him to another he doesn't know.
Just as Jazz plucked Sideswipe off of Sunstreaker's arms, the sparkling started to whimper and turn to face his brother. His small arms reaching for him to pick him back. But when he didn't, Sideswipe cried. Jazz quickly hands him back to the sighing Lamborghini.
"Maybe I should stay here for a minute until he can adjust to you guys," he said as he gently cradled a very distressed Sideswipe. The girls who are in the human section can only have one image glued in their head. A blonde, protective new mother holding an hour old baby.
As the bustling mechs move about the rec room, Sunstreaker sat on one of the chairs and stroking Sideswipe's chin and helmhorns until the sparkling calms down. Then he motioned for Jazz to come near and try to gain Sideswipe's trust.
"If he cries, stroke his helm and rock him gently, if that doesn't work, place him over your spark chamber. Usually that does the trick, if it still doesn't work, he just plain doesn't like you," Sunstreaker advised.
Jazz nods his head in understandment and gently toss Sideswipe into the air. The sparkling doesn't seem to like it at first but finally enjoyed it. Even Bluestreak and Trailbreaker joined in to amuse the sparkling but they still held their distance when Sunstreaker glared at them.
"I gotta go. Before you return him to me you might wanna give him a bath 'cause I'm not doing it," said the yellow twin before he slips out of the room and towards the monitor room with Red Alert. After he's gone, Jazz smirks at the sparkling.
"Well buddy, how 'bout we have some fun?"
Sideswipe just tilts his head to the side and squeaked. Somehow, Jeazmyne doesn't like that smirk. Usually when Jazz has that evil devil smirk, it means that everyone's going to meet the apocalypse.
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Dance to the beat, wave your hands together
Come feel the heat forever and forever
Listen and learn, this is time for prancing
Now we are here with caramelldansen!
The music blasted out from Jazz's huge stereos and practically made everyone deaf by the high volume. He had been teaching Sideswipe how to do the caramelldansen dance for the past hour and surprisingly, Sideswipe was a fast learner. Even though he can't stand yet but he managed to wiggle his little aft left and right and raise his arms.
"For God's sake Jazz! Turn down the volume!" Leanna screamed. However her voice wasn't loud enough to surpass the stereo so she had to continue covering her abused ears. Even the rest of the bots have trouble trying to tell Jazz to lower the damn thing's volume. Then, Jeazmyne had a brilliant idea.
She searched for a microphone and its wires to plug it at her own stereo. When she found what she was looking for, she connects it and shouted, "JAZZ! SHUT UP!"
That seems to do the trick. Jazz stopped dancing almost immediately and turns off his stereo system, but Sideswipe wants otherwise. The sparkling pouts and points to the stereos as if trying to say, 'turn that back on'. Jazz smile down at the little mech and scoops him up.
"Sorry Jazz, as much as I love seeing a happily dancing Sideswipe, you could at least lower the volume, we can't really take our ears out ya know," Jeazmyne points out without using the mike.
"Although somehow, I want to rip my ears out whenever Jazz starts to blow this place apart," Leanna groaned, rubbing her ears and shaking her head to stop the throbbing that occured from deep inside her brain. Jazz mock scowl at the medic.
"Like you're no different. You and J-Myne there rocked throughout tha' entire night playin' your instruments."
"And whose idea was it? Certainly not mine. You were the one wanting to hear us after we've bought our bass and guitar on that night, I said the day after but you, you wanted it immediately."
"Alright, both of you knock it off," Jeazmyne warned, pushing Leanna back. Jazz isn't the mech to loose his temper easily but Leanna can create a fight in less than a minute when needed. "C'mon, in three more hours, Sunny's gonna finish his shift and will take Sideswipe back. You can entertain him, but make sure it's tolerable for all of us,"
Jazz couldn't argue with that, so he took Sideswipe and some of his musics before walking out to see some fun. Jeazmyne glared at her friend. "You just can't give me a break, can you?"
"Nope, and I like to make it stay that way."
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After retreating from the rec room, Jazz had brought Sideswipe to his room. Everything in there is filled with discs, stereos, posters and a transformer-sized guitar hero. Except one side that has a rather large desk with a couple of reports and a comfy chair.
The TIC placed Sideswipe on his berth before pushing a cd into his surround systems and cranking the volumes up, good thing Wheeljack installed a sound-proof door for his quarters.
"Well kid, ya wanna know how ta do tha' macarena?" he grins. Sideswipe only blinks up at him and started to whimper. Jazz quickly went over to the little mech and tried to calm him by rocking back and forth, until he remembered what he had forgotten. "Wait..m'suppose ta feed ya aren't I?"
Sideswipe wailed causing Jazz to flinch. "Yeah, m'suppose ta feed ya."
Placing Sideswipe back on his berth and cushioning the sparkling's head with a pillow, Jazz quickly pour the low-grade into the bottle Sunstreaker had given him earlier. When he's done, he shook the bottle gently, went over to Sideswipe and pops the tube of the bottle into said sparkling's waiting mouth.
The little red mech guzzle the liquid hungrily. Soft, content squeaks escaped the sparkling's occupied mouth as he drink. Jazz smiled when he remembered how he took care of Bumblebee when he was just a wee sparkling. That yellow spy cause a whole lot more trouble than he does back then, but Jazz wouldn't forget any of it.
A few minutes had passed and Sideswipe finishes his drink. Jazz hefted the sparkling on his shoulders and pats Sideswipe on his back, causing him to burp out some excess fluid.
"There ya go, nice an' full," Jazz cooed. He grabs a thermal blanket and wraps it around Sideswipe, covering the entire sparkling except his face. Then he turns on some soothing music to lull the sparkling to slumber.
"Guess tha' macarena have ta wait," he chuckled quietly.
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Sunstreaker had just finished his shift and is taking a break on one of the chairs in the rec room. He wanted to get his brother back but somehow, Jazz isn't responding to his calls. Looks like have to track that saboteur down..wherever he is. He searched around for anybot he could find to help him track Jazz, then he saw Bluestreak.
"Hey Blue! I got a job for ya," he called out. The gunner stopped with his chatting and walks over to Sunstreaker.
"What kind of job?" he asked.
"I want to find Jazz but I have no idea where he is over the past four hours. I was hoping that maybe you'd know and help me get him?" Sunstreaker reasoned, pretending to be exhausted until the gunner gave him a look of pity.
"Yeah I know where they are. After you left, Jazz teached Sides how to do the cramelldansen dance, then Leanna and Jeazmyne told Jazz to shut up so he did and last thing I know Jazz took Sideswipe to his room and haven't come out ever since. Do you want me to go get them 'cause I know you're tired and it's the least I could do so that you could save your energy and-.."
Before Bluestreak could ramble off, he was cut midway by Sunstreaker. "Thanks for the info Blue and yes..please go get Jazz..and tell him I said thanks.." he groaned and slowly swallowing his energon. Bluestreak nods and went off.
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In his room, both Jazz and Sideswipe who sat on his berth are waving their arms and moving their afts at the beat of the song. He had just fed and bathe Sideswipe so whenever Sunstreaker wants his brother, everything is ready.
As they happily move about the beat, Bluestreak knocks on the door. The saboteur shuffled his way over to his berth, plucked Sideswipe up and shuffled towards the door.
"Heya Blue!" he grins all the while still shuffling. The gunner looks a little surprised to see Jazz dancing and Sideswipe still waving his arms over his head. "What'cha need?"
"Um..Sunstreaker wants Sideswipe back. And by the looks of it he's about to fall offline from exhaustion so he asked me to do it. Should I tell him about what you've been doing with Sideswipe or-.." once again he was interrupted.
"Just tell 'im tha' Sides an' I have been dancing for the whole day. I've fed an' bathe 'im so he's good ta go," Jazz smirks, handing Sideswipe to Bluestreak but the sparkling wouldn't have none of it. He clutched on Jazz's arms tighter.
"He doesn't like me..?" Blue pondered, doorwings drooping down and looking a bit sad.
"Ah..Sides got social issue. He's not used ta new people an' might cry if he's not in Sunny's arms or mine. Guess I'll just hafta carry the squirt ta Sunny myself," with that, Jazz hefted Sideswipe over his shoulders and walk past Blue towards the rec room.
On their way there, Sideswipe kept looking at the gunner and it's making the grey mech slightly uncomfortable. Then Sideswipe smile and chirped, moving his hands forward and small finger clenching and unclenching at Bluestreak.
"Hey, whataya know? He's startin' ta warm up ta ya Blue," smirks Jazz at the -if can- blushing gunner. Bluestreak picked Sideswipe from Jazz's arms and place him at one of his shoulders, but Sideswipe seems to be reaching for something else.
"What do you think he wants? I don't have a ghost behind me do I?" shrieks the gunner. Jazz peeks at what Sideswipe was aiming for and laughed.
"No ghost Blue," Jazz chuckled earning a grateful sigh from Bluestreak. "But he's more interested in ya doorwings."
Bluestreak wasn't too happy to hear that. Apparently the only thing he have to catch a sparkling's optics are his wings. He gave Sideswipe back to Jazz and continued their way. Sometimes the gunner would play with Sideswipe's little nose by poking it, earning a giggle and his finger being nibbled as 'punishment'.
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Finally having his brother again and giving Jazz a long, odd look, again, Sunstreaker retreated to his shared quarters with Sideswipe and rock him to sleep before giving a chance to any other bots from coming near his baby brother.
Back in the rec room, murmurs from the other bots besides Jazz and Bluestreak could be heard.
"Why is he so protective?"
"Sideswipe's one of our friends too,"
"He's so selfish!"
And even something not related to the topic like "I wanna give Sides a teddy bear!" could also be heard.
"It's because of their bond. Ever since they were younger, Sunstreaker's the one protecting Sideswipe so it's no surprise that old programming would resurface," Ratchet explained loudly to catch the others attention.
'How'd you know?" Cliffjumper asked.
"Because I've met them long ago when the war just started. Sideswipe was sick and Sunstreaker trying to get some fuel for the both of them.." croaked Ratchet as he tried to remember the painful memory. "I was just a new medic that time and I didn't even know they were twins. When I tried to get near Sideswipe, Sunstreaker attacked.."
Everyone listened to the story in full attention, finally knowing there are some warmth in Sunstreaker's cold spark.
"It was raining, and the shelter they have only enough for one. Sunny gave that spot to his brother while he searched for fuel. I never know their creators, they were just younglings in the street where survival is war.. That's why he's instinct to protect his brother kicks in."
The others hung their heads low, finally understanding some of the twins' history. As night cycled in, Sunstreaker strode into the rec room to get some energon before heading off to bed. Once again, Jazz happily declared he wants to play with Sideswipe.
Not really fully awake, Sunstreaker agrees and went off to drink his energon quietly...then the macarena song blasts on.
"Jazz? What the frag!" shouted all the bots in the rec room. Sunstreaker spits his energon out when he saw his brother dancing along with Jazz. Apparently the sparkling knows the moves after being taught several hundred times. Bluestreak just stared open-mouthed beside Sunstreaker.
"Remind me to never allow Jazz to teach Sideswipe how to dance," Sunstreaker noted the gunner as the duo continued to dance.
How'd ya like that? After the exam I have so much time on my hands I got bored! Usually you won't get a new chapter until next week but..things changed, for the best too.
If you'll excue me, my mum is dragging me to watch this movie with her called..'Signs'. Something about a family discovering crop circles in their crops. Yeeeaaahhh...tell me whatcha think, add some suggestions too if ya want.