My dad's birthday is coming like..SOON..and I have no idea what to give him. This chapter would involve our fave medic and our little, adorable, currently innocent sparkling.
Aaanywaaayysss...I decided to put some more 'brotherly love' action in this since I think it's not enough for my liking. Okay, so I'm into twincest.. a bit, but it's not like I'll be putting it in here. Like the summary says, Sunny going into 'mum-mode', not 'twincest' mode. Cool your jets..
Not mine..live with it.
"Alright Jeazmyne, let's take it from the top."
"Gimme a minute will ya? My fingers are still hurting, damn competition.."
"Hopefully our dear friends, Rissa and Laily are practising as hard as us..but I still can't believe you're Romeo in the..-"
"DON'T SAY IT JULIET!"
Ratchet was sitting on his chair in his office and reading a datapad when he heard bickerings from the other room, which turns out to be Leanna and Jeazmyne's shared room. He sighs and made his way towards his apprentice's room to stop the bickering again. Those two can be worse than Prowl and Jazz at times.
But just as he stepped out of his office, a loud crying could be heard coming from the twins' room.
'Primus..am I the only sane one here?' he thought. Before he can make another step, a yellow blur in the form of Sunstreaker zoomed past him and went straight to his room, nearly knocking Ratchet in the process. He stared at the retreating form closing the door and the crying subsided. Another hiss from his right snaps him out of his daze.
"Hey Ratchet? What's going on?" Jeazmyne asked.
"Yeah, we heard crying and running," Leanna continued.
Ratchet pushes himself up and shrugs a shoulder. But then he glared at the two humans. "Stop bickering, or else I'm going to hang you upside down from the ceiling!" The girls immediately paled and nods their heads.
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Sunstreaker pants from the running. Before he went out to check the duty roaster, Sideswipe was fast asleep and wrapped up in his thermal blanket, but when he left, the sparkling woke up and nearly cried his voice capasitor out causing the yellow twin to run back to him almost immediately.
"You just can't give me a break, can you?" he frowned at Sideswipe. The sparkling simply sniffed and hiccups at the older mech. His engines still moving too fast after the crying and still not circulating the right amount of air to cool them down, hence the hiccups. Sunstreaker sighs and pats Sideswipe's back and cooing at him.
"It's alright Sides..I'm here.." he murmured. In the next half an hour he needs to go on patrol and Jazz is on shift, the only off shifts are Ratchet, Hound, Grapple and Tracks. No way in the Pits is the yellow warrior allowing that egotistical, full-of-himself Corvette touching his sparkling brother.
He'd probably let Hound watch over but the thought of the scout taking Sideswipe out of the Ark made him feel a little paranoid. As for Grapple, he didn't want any materials for his inventions to fall on Sideswipe. That leaves Ratchet...
As Sunstreaker continues to ponder on what he should do, Sideswipe's optics becomes droopy and he pops his thumb into his mouth. When the yellow twin notices this, he smiled warmly. "I guess I have no other choice.." he murmured, kissing Sideswipe on his helm.
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Half an hour later, Ratchet found himself staring dumbly at Sunstreaker while his arms are full with a sleeping Sideswipe. Leanna, who had returned to work, snickered at her superior but shuts up when she got a glare.
"You want me to babysit this menace?"
"C'mon Ratch', you watch over us most of the time and know what we need. Besides, you're off shift," Sunstreaker tried to reason.
"I don't 'watch over' you! You and your brother slagged yourself way too much and there are plenty of other Bots that're off shift to look after him!"
"Exactly my point! You know what we like best, I've gotta patrol to go and I need him recharching when I get back later tonight," with that said, the yellow hellion went off with a wave, leaving a flabbergasted Ratchet on the spot.
"Look on the bright side Ratchet, you won't be bored for the entire day," Leanna grins, wisely going towards the door that connects her room with the medbay. Before he even realised that she was gone, shouts of profanities escaped him.
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Not exactly knowing what he should do, Ratchet carried Sideswipe to Wheeljack's lab to see the engineer's progress. As he strode down the hallway, little Sideswipe is happily playing with his fingers. Sadly not long after, he got bored and decided to move about the medic's arms tring to find something more fun to do.
"Would you quit that!" he snarled.
Sideswipe stopped completely and whimpered at the harsh tone. Realizing that this Sideswipe is different and more sensitive than the older Sideswipe, Ratchet quickly rocks the little one until he calmed down.
"Jeez..you've caused me trouble when you're a mech, and you also cause me trouble when you're a sparkling, are you born just to annoy me?" he grumbles as he rocks Sideswipe to slumber.
Once they reached the lab, Ratchet opens the door to see Wheeljack and Perceptor examining the blasted machine that had started this whole mess. When he sees what they were doing, Ratchet can only quirk a metal brow.
"What're you doing?" he asked lamely.
"Tring to actually find what had turned Sideswipe into a sparkling in the first place. This thing's suppose to turn CPU's into that of a sparkling, not the whole mech," Wheeljack answered casually without even looking up. Perceptor is beside the inventor and in his microscope mode, his lenses zooming in and out to find any micro damages to the wires.
"Then I suggest you work fast because we're one frontliner short. Sunstreaker may charge at the 'Cons like a mad bull but..it's Sideswipe that takes his defenses. Besides, if this red Pit-spawn's like this, Sunstreaker needs to protect him,"
Wheeljack and Perceptor couldn't argue with that. Then they saw the sleeping bundle in Ratchet's arms, the inventor melted almost in an instant whe Sideswipe twittered in his sleep, dreaming of only Primus knows what.
"He is so adorable like that. Hard to believe that the twins were like this when they were created huh?" Ratchet snorted at this.
"Yeah, cute and innocent for both of them when they're sparklings, but troublesome and idiotic once they've grown up," he grumbled but notheless stroke the little black helm with a gentle hand. The sparkling simply squeaked and curled into a tighter ball when the cold air from the lab's aircond crept up to his underdeveloped armour.
"You might want to warm him up, even a simple virus can be a threat for such a young life," Perceptor points out at the shivering tiny mech.
"Alright, I'll take him back with me but I want this matter to resolve in the shortest of time. The 'Cons may be quiet but that doesn't mean we can willy-nilly around," growled the medic. Both scientists nod their heads and return to what they were doing before.
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"Ratchet! Can I borrow your laser scalpel? I couldn't find mine and..-"
Leanna strode into the medbay casually as usual when she was cut off mid way when Ratchet 'SSSHHHH!'-ed at her.
"What's wrong?" she asked, taking off her labcoat and hangs it at a coat rack showing her deep brown dress.
"I just put him to sleep after he cried his voice out. Kid's got a voice that could blow Mount Everest!" Ratchet said, emphasizing his words with some flailings of his arms. The girl then nods her head with a silent 'ah..'
"So that's the noise I heard when I had to take care of Jazz.." she muttered. Three seconds later, her eyes widens in horror when she realise what she had spit out. Turning ever so slowly, she could see the dark red flames towering behind Ratchet who have an 'I'm going to kill you!' aura.
"What was that about Jazz?" he hissed. Leanna thought she's going to die after this, but life isn't easy lately so..why not.
"Uhh...he had this..'music fever' just now with Jeazmyne and Blaster, and he danced like a drunk monkey and manage to bash his head against a table and..dent it like..really bad.." she squeaked out while twiddling her fingers. Ratchet's face was calm and stoic but after working for a couple of months with the medic, Leanna is coping with his temper that not many bots survive.
"Music fever?" he started ever so slowly.
"Yeah..Jeazmyne was practicing her solo with her guitar and Jazz and Blaster joined in after the latter is finished with his shift.."
Ratchet didn't say anything but picks up his wrench and took a menacing step forward at his charge. He had known Leanna to have a rock-hard head and just wouldn't listen to the rules unless deamed necessary, nor is she easy to crack for some information.
"Where is he?"
"His room," answered the girl quickly. With a stern 'watch him!', Ratchet marched off leaving the sparkling and the human together. A few seconds, then a sound akin to a metal hitting a metal could be heard, followed by a terrified yelp and screaming of profanities. The girl can only shook her head in amusement.
She turned around and climbed on the ladder that Ratchet had installed for her to get on the medberth, and saw a delightfully sleeping Sideswipe. The sparkling is tucked in his thermal blanket and an empty bottle beside him.
"Somehow I wonder why you grew up to be such a troublemaker.." she sighs. While she sat there singing a couple of songs, she couldn't help but chuckle when she saw Jazz running for his life followed by a fuming ambulance.
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Ratchet have to admit Jeazmyne was right. With Sideswipe being a sparkling, he didn't get as much work as before. And even if there are bots visiting his medbay, he'd sent Leanna to do the job. Dings, scratches and dents? Basic medical knowledge, no problem for the kid.
"Well sir, you look like you've been relaxing the entire day," smirked Leanna while she cleans some tools. Ratchet does look like he's been relaxing the entire day. Feet up his table, playing with Sideswipe, drinking some mild high-grade, yeah..he's been relaxing alright.
"I had fun," he smirked while tossing Sideswipe up in the air gently. "Heard that you play Juliet in your class play,"
The tool in the girl's hand clattered to the floor noisily. Her head dipped low causing her bangs to cever half her face and gave her that 'dark aura' that even Optimus is scared off, especially when she's royally pissed off.
"And to think my drama teacher is such a genius.." she whispered. "How was I suppose to know that she was covering up our roles! All she said was 'please write your name underneath this line'! Then she opens the paper that covered our roles and...and..!"
"Your whole class went completely quiet when you and Jeazmyne got the lead roles? It's a wonder that they don't mind that guys play girls and vice versa.." Ratchet pondered. Leanna slumped slightly.
"Miss Kiara thinks that it's fair for all of us. If half the girls want to play Juliet, it'll be troublesome," she sighs. "Then I still have that band competition with Jeazmyne, it's difficult.."
The medic knew this might happen. Her happy mood doesn't really last long and would be replaced by boredom or something related to what they would talk about. Mostly she felt emotionless and bored. Except for Jeazmyne, her happy mood can last the whole day if it went her way, and even in the darkest time she would smile to lift her own spirits.
"Why can't you be like Jeazmyne?" he asked, trying to change the subject. Leanna blinked a few times, confused at the sudden change when once more, her expression turned bored. A slight frown and half open eyes.
"That's not my thing," came the casual reply. Of course...
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Still in his relaxed position and his charge returning to her room, Ratchet played with Sideswipe and surprisingly, he's grown attached to the little sparkling despite the death threats and multiple wrench throwing he had done. He really hate to admit, Sideswipe got him hypnotized by his big and sparkly optics.
Until of course, Tracks waltz right in and ruin the happy relaxing moment. "What do you want Tracks?" glowered the medic while putting Sideswipe on his chair.
"Ratchet, do you have any extra wax and polish? I need to buff up my chesse,"
The medic points to the cabinet behind him, and then he heard soft twitters coming from his office. Leaving Tracks to his things, he went inside to retrieve a bored Sideswipe and flicked his nose playfully, earning a hiccuppy giggle from the sparkling. Ratchet then walks outside to see if Tracks could find any of his items.
The Corvette was rummaging through the cabinet when he saw Ratchet coming out with Sideswipe. He stopped completely and grins.
"So..our resident prankster got turned into a helpless little sparkling. I'm sure that a certain off-dated Lamborghini wouldn't mind if I'd play around him a bit," smirked Tracks as he advances closer towards the confused and blinking Sideswipe. But before he could pluck Sideswipe off, Ratchet has already whap him on his head.
"I don't think so Tracks. Sunstreaker might rebuild you a new head if you touch his brother. Plus, you know how he is ever since Sideswipe turned like this, he's only merely protecting Sideswipe," stressed Ratchet, pushing the Corvette back.
"C'mon Ratchet! It's time Sunstreaker knows the word 'pay' and 'back'! It's not everyday I got a chance like this.." whined Tracks. Ratchet just settle him with a glare and hold Sideswipe tighter in his arms. He shooed the Corvette and returns to his office, leaving a sulking Tracks behind.
Walking out of the medbay, Tracks decided to 'kidnap' Sideswipe by bribing Anna. He'd bribe Hoist or First Aid but those mechs are not worth his time seeing as how they don't want to get killed by the cheif surgeon.
Re-thinking his plans, Tracks smirked at himself.
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"You want me to do what?"
"It'll be simple, all you have to do is distract Ratchet for a while, just enough time for me to take Sideswipe,"
"Let me rephrase that, you want to do WHAT?"
Rolling his optics, his patience is getting thin and Leanna STILL refuse to help him. "I want to kidnap Sideswipe so that ol'Sunstreaker knows that when I payback, I damn well payback."
"You do realise that Sideswipe hasn't done anything wrong to you. Even before he becomes a sparkling, the only bot you have problems with is Sunstreaker, not him. And now that he's a sparkling, he's vulnerable!"
"My whole point exactly!"
Leanna sighs and turned to her friend for some answers. Jeazmyne stared at the two before shaking her head in disagreement. Leanna then turned back to Tracks.
"Sorry Tracks, I'm not helping you. I like the twins, and I'm not doing anything to get on Sunny's bad side. We all know what'll happen and even if I'm a hard-headed kid, I'm just a human that he can squish easily," she shrugs nonchalantly.
"Yeah, but he won't do that least he wants red smushy things all over his frame," Jeazmyne adds all too chipper. Tracks frowned at the girls and quite disgusted at the term 'red smushy things' coming from a human. He would have none of it either. Before he could utter a single word, Ratchet was at the door with Sideswipe and his things.
"I've got a staff meeting that I've...completely forgotten.." he starts in an embarrassed tone.
"Because you were TOO relaxed all day," muttered his assistant without even looking up from a medical report. Ratchet leered at her while the duo snickered.
"Right..now I need someone to look after him and Tracks.." he sighs. "As much as I don't want to do this, you'll have to watch him until either Sunstreaker returns or I've finish with the meeting."
The medic then gently hands Sideswipe to a VERY pleased Tracks and went off. For Tracks, everything just seemed to go his way now. "Seeing as how the universe just turned my way, I'll be off doing embarassing things to lil' Siders," he cackled evilly and ran off.
Leanna and Jeazmyne shouted at him not to harm Sideswipe, Leanna even threw a heavy wrench at him that managed to hit a very sensitive wiring in his knee. The Corvette yelped in pain but he managed to limp himself back to his room.
"What're we suppose to do? Sunstreaker's gonna KILL us!" Jeazmyne shrieks.
"Not us, him. I got Sunflower on speed dial," Leanna hold up her phone to emphasize her point.
"How did..? When'd you..? What..? Agh! Never mind, just call him or else Sides is going to be in a world of Hell!"
"Already on it!"
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"HE DID WHAT?" roared the yellow twin once he got message from Leanna and Jeazmyne.
; You heard me! He kidnaps Sideswipe and holding him hostage until you return. ; came Jeazmyne's voice over the commlink.
"Where the frag is Ratchet? I said he should watch Sideswipe, not Tracks!" he glowered. His patrol was over half an hour ago and he's on his way to the Ark when he got the call.
; Ratchet got a staff meeting he kinda..forgot. So he went to us and Tracks was there and..yeah.. ;
Sunstreaker growls again and shifted his gears, his engines roaring as he drove at top speed trying to return to his brother. Checking through the bond, he notices that Sideswipe is still calm but two hours away from home, not really helping matters since Tracks might have enough time to mess up his twin.
"I'm on my way back!" he cuts off the link and focused entirely on home. He'd have a word with Tracks later on for this.
I never even thought of putting Tracks in but..a reviewer gave me the idea and this was written down. It was evening, just rained and 5 pm looks like 8 pm, I got blur. Dark weather don't do well with me 'cause I practically live with the sun.
Now, I'm off to bury myself in pillows since it's..around 10 degrees and as usual, I don't do well in cold. But I still need to know what to buy for my dad for his birthday..hmmm...what do men like? All I know is that he's simple, casual and just LOVES WWE Raw.
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