"What are you doing wrestling in front of Bumblebee!" Prowl demanded for answers from the brawling mechs on the floor.
"Nothing it was Sideswipes fault!" Sunstreaker quickly blamed as he pushed Sideswipe, Mirage and Jazz off of him.
"I don't care who's fault it is don't wrestle in front of Bumblebee you could have injured him or offlined him he doesn't have that much defence against four mechs" Prowl snapped at the idiotic mechs.
"Ok ok we're sorry we didn't think of that" Jazz apologized as the four of them filled with guilt, they would never be able to live with themselves knowing that they offlined a sparkling.
"Good I'll take the sparkling of your servos and you four go you've got guard duty today" Prowl informed picking Bumblebee out of the playpen.
"Aaaaaw" the twins and Mirage sighed
"Damn we wanted to spend more time with lil Bee" Jazz complained following his friends who all considered each other as their own brothers.
"Next time boys" Prowl rolled his optics at the depressed looking bots that left the room.
"Alright you lets go check on the other bots in the ship" Prowl cooed and cradled the wide awake chirping Bumblebee into the crook of his arm, Bumblebee gurgled and clicked trying to grab the black and white mechs face who giggled at his efforts to pat his face.
"You are so silly… you keep hanging out with the boys their going to teach you all their pranks and practical jokes…..oh how I can't wait for that day when they get a new recruit" Prowl sighed to himself as he walked into the communications room.
"Hey Jetfire how's everything in the skies today" Prowl asked after he pressed a button.
"Not so good we're taking pretty heavy fire out here" The bot on the hologram spoke.
"Hey Prowl how's it goin?" Ironhide asked walking in the room.
Bumblebee peeked over Prowl's upper arm and gave a loud squeak and chirp to Ironhide.
"Well hello to you to you little runt" Ironhide cooed as he rubbed the side of Bumblebee's helm with one of his massive fingers.
"There's a place you and Optimus need to get to I'll send the coordinates me and the aerial bots will be waiting for you there Jetfire out" Jetfire told prowl and ended the call.
"Ironhide good you're here!" Prowl turned to Ironhide.
"I've been standing here for like five…"
"What ever take Bumblebee I'll be back shortly" Prowl said handing Bumblebee to the weapon specialist.
"But I don't know how to take care of a sparkling!" Ironhide called after Prowl.
"It's easy he eats and recharges how hard could it be…. And don't forget to change him! There's supplies in the rec room" Prowl yelled as he ran off.
"I come in with a friendly hello and I get a sparkling well that's the last time I'm being friendly" Ironhide spoke to himself and received a cute gurgle come from the sparkling he held.
"You know I blame you for this..…" Ironhide told Bumblebee holding him by his wings in front of his massive helm.
Bumblebee chirped as he patted Ironhide's face with his tiny little servos only to be pulled away from the weapon specialists face.
"Hey stop that runt!" Ironhide snapped as he pulled the curious Bee away.
Bumblebee let out small whimpers as his optics filled with tears not knowing what he did to upset the giant mech.
"No no no don't cry I didn't mean it ok lets go find….. Uh…um Bulkhead yeah how bout I take you to go meet Bulkhead" Ironhide panicked quickly getting an idea.
Bumblebee tilted his helm clicking in confusion as to who the large bot was talking about.
"Bulkhead where are you please tell me your in the base" Ironhide whined.
"Oh good I'll be there in a sec" Ironhide ended the call and quickly made his way to the rec room where about four mechs were all sitting in front of a giant monitor watching a video.
"Hey Hide what's up you seemed a little stressed when you called" Bulkhead asked as Ironhide approached him.
"Yeah prowl was nice enough to drop this little bundle of wires with me" Ironhide said showing the tiny curious sparkling to the bots.
"Oh yeah I heard bout this little guy is he that much trouble?" Wheeljack laughed at Ironhide letting him sit on the couch beside him.
"You take him than!" Ironhide snapped at the wrecker and placed Bumblebee on Wheeljack's lap.
"Whoa! Hey there little guy" Wheeljack greeted picking Bumblebee up by his wings.
Bumblebee squeaked as Wheeljack poked his tummy gently.
"Aw what a cutie where did Optimus get such a tiny thing" Wheeljack chuckled as Bumblebee grabbed his finger.
"In the old underground energon storage unit" Ironhide told them.
"Oh yeah…"
"Hey Jackie can I see him" Bulkhead asked in his usual cherry tone reaching for Bumblebee.
"Sure sure here" Wheeljack happily handed Bumblebee over to the giant green mech.
"Aw look at his little wings… well their actually quite big on you" Bulkhead chuckled as he placed Bumblebee on his giant servo.
Bumblebee happily twittered at Bulkhead squeaking happily at him as he grabbed hold of a massive thumb.
"aren't you a little squeaky one" Bulkhead giggled as Bumblebee sucked on his own little thumb.
"Hmm I wonder if the little runt is hungry?" Ironhide questioned looking over at the box of sparkling supplies.
"Ya never know if you don't try" Bluestreak smiled.
"Yeah I got that thanks…" Ironhide rolled his optics in annoyance.
"Ha ha squeaky stop it!" Bulkhead said between giggles at little Bumblebee cradled in his arms that was happily sucking his thumb and pattering his tiny little feet against Bulkheads big chest.
"Hurry up Hide this little guy is hungry" Wheeljack chuckled watching Bulkhead giggle every time the little feet got him.
"Alright you hungry runt?" Ironhide asked as he walked over the laughing wrecker.
Bumblebee quickly fixed his optics on the small bottle filled with warm blue liquid reaching for it and clicking and chirping for it.
"Wow he really is hungry" Wheeljack laughed as Bulkhead handed Bumblebee to Ironhide.
"I guess I was right than huh?" Ironhide smiled as he cradled Bumblebee in the crook of his arm placing the tip of the bottle in Bumblebee's hungry mouth.
"Well we gotta get goin" The four bots in the room said leaving the room.
"Bye" Ironhide said as he sat on the couch, Ironhide glanced down at Bumblebee and smiled as quiet suckles came from the tiny bot that slowly closed his optics.
"aaaaw someone's ready for a nap" Ironhide cooed as he took the bottle and wiped the bit of energon that escaped the sparkling mouth soon Ironhide dozed off.
An hour later
"Hey Ironhide whatcha doin!" Sideswipe obnoxiously asked jumping over the couch and landing beside the cranky weapon specialist.
Bumblebee instantly woke up crying.
"Ooops…." Sideswipe cowered as Ironhide shot him a death glare.
"Thank you!" Ironhide shouted at the silver twin.
"Way to go Sides!" Sunstreaker hissed smacking his brothers helm.
"Ouch what the hell!" Sideswipe whined as Bumblebee continued to cry.
"We're back….. Let me guess the twins upset him" Prowl asked as he and Optimus walked in the rec room.
"Bingo!" Jazz said pointing to Sideswipe.
"Hey screw you it was Mirages fault" Sideswipe pointed to the red bot that silently stood there.
"What did I do!" Mirage whined.
"Nothing let me see him" Optimus sighed taking Bumblebee from Ironhide.
"Well I'de love to see what happens next but I got to get going" Ironhide said leaving the room.
"He just needs to be changed that's all" Optimus pointed out as he quickly changed his crying sparkling.
"Oh ok I thought I whacked him or something" Sideswipe sighed with relief.
"Uhuh… well we had a long shift today think it's time for some rest" Jazz said heading for the door.
"Yeah right behind you" Mirage and the twins followed.
"Yep same goes for us little one" Optimus cooed walking down the hallway.
Bumblebee clicked and squeaked at Optimus brining joy to the prime.
"I hope you weren't to much trouble for old Ironhide" Optimus chuckled.
Early in the morning just after midnight
"Ok you don't need to be changed and you aren't calming down so your hungry" Optimus told himself as he entered the kitchen in the rec room.
"Hang in there your bottle is almost ready" Optimus tried to sooth Bumblebee's cries.
"Alright here" Optimus fed Bumblebee the bottle of warm liquid.
"Ok…." Optimus sighed with relief hearing the quiet suckles that cam from Bumblebee.
"Very good Optimus" a voice came from the other side of the room.
"Oh geez!" Optimus turned around and had Ratchet at gunpoint.
"whoa didn't mean to startle you" Ratchet said putting his servos up.
"I didn't see you in here" Optimus sighed putting his gun away.
"I know I just wanted to see if you are handling the sparkling ok" Ratchet told Optimus as they walked down the hall.
"Ratchet I told you that I didn't want to wake you next time" Optimus whined.
"Oh well next time" Ratchet laughed as he left into his room.