And Chaos Ensues

Chapter Three: How Seekerlets are Made

Thundercracker x Soundwave

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Thoughts

Telepathic communication

Three sparklings played in the command center, climbing over a softly smiling blue jet as the twin frontliners entered the room. Thundercracker still had a clear view of the monitors from his position, so he was far from shirking his duty, but he turned to greet them as they entered, offering them a smile as one of the seekerlets attempted to scale one of his wings.

"What can I help you with?" he asked easily, not concerned about their presence in the slightest. Over the past couple of orns they had settled down and were rarely remarked upon. He also knew for a fact that Prowl and Smokescreen's welcome to them had eased their fears as the delight to have them in their family was apparent.

"We were just wondering about who you were mated to since we know most of the other mechs are paired off or in gestalts," Sideswipe said, lowering himself into one of the chairs slowly. Sunstreaker went to sit on the floor by the jet, but Thundercracker stopped him.

"I'll bring you one of my seekerlets, just sit in the chair. Getting off the ground at this stage is nigh impossible sometimes. I had to call Warp to teleport me to a berth so that I could stand up again without pain since Megatron was carrying at the time and couldn't overexert himself."

The yellow twin glared for a moment, but moved over to the other chair present as he knew it was true. He had already had that problem once due to his stubbornness and had decided he did not want the humiliation. A grey, white, and sky blue sparkling was soon in his lap and happily chirring away as he played with yellow fingers.

"That is CloudShredder. He already shows promise of being speedy in the air since he rides with Starscream most of the time." Thundercracker smiled at the seekerlet indulgently before turning to set a yellow and orange one in Sideswipe's lap. "This is Sunset, partially because it's his favorite time of day. He was even separated at that time." He knelt in front of the last seekerlet, a mainly black form with red and blue accents, and tickled the mechlet. "My youngest here is BassBeat as it's easiest to lull him into recharge with one."

Ravage trotted into the command center and greeted the jet with a playful bat at his wing. A purr rumbled out of her as she leaned in close to the sparkling. He reached up and scratched behind her ears with a happy chirr and a few clicks.

Soundwave entered a klik after her with another sparkling in his arms. His mask retracted as he leaned down so he could claim a quick kiss from his bondmate, answering the twins' question with actions instead of words.

"So who carried which sparklings?"

"Seekers: always come in threes. Also: always carried by Seekers. Greenlight: carried by Soundwave. Soundwave: BassBeat's Creator."

"But you aren't CloudShredder or Sunset's Creator?"

Thundercracker was the one to answer the question. "Starscream is CloudShredder's Creator and Skywarp is Sunset's. As Seekers, we are always sparked in threes, but some of the Sparked Trines don't function well together and break those bonds to form their own. We are ones that broke our bonds to form this Trine, but he Rainmakers and Coneheads are examples of Sparked Trines. They don't spark with their Trinemates ever. They never feel the urge to. Warp, Scree, and I do. That doesn't mean we don't find bondmates outside of the Trine though." He looked at the tape deck fondly. They had been bonded most of the war, but only recently decided to have sparklings whereas Scree had sired an entire gestalt on Megatron almost as soon as they bonded – the Combaticons. More recently he had done so again for the Stunticons, though Starscream had carried the Coneheads before them. As for the sparkling Megatron had just carried, Piston, he was a triple-changer. It was quite evident who topped who in their relationship since Megatron had carried eleven out of their brood of fourteen.

"How did you two end up together?"

"We were overcharged," Soundwave said, his voice modulator have powered off while the Seeker talked so that his natural, musical voice was heard. "Majorly overcharged. And decided to frag to get rid of the charge instead of powering down. It was a total accident that we bonded, but it worked out for the best. We have four gorgeous sparklings and one of the most…. versatile…. 'facing lives here on the ship, though Warp and Barricade are similar in that respect, as are Prowl and Smokescreen and the Constructicons."

"How do you accidentally bond?" Sideswipe's face looked horrified, but his twin was interested.

"You go too far in spark play. I wasn't experienced with it and I guess Soundwave was too overcharged to notice, but slag did it feel good at the time."