This chapter is about when Hot Shot is stuck spark sitting Bumblebee and Starlight. It's cute!
Chapter Five: The Spark Sitter
Only a few months after being sparked Starlight started to crawl. To keep her out of trouble, we took her to the main deck so she could practice without getting squished. It was a large space and very few bots came there.
We got there and saw Rocket and Coraline had brought Bumblebee to do the same thing. Starlight and Bumblebee started to beep again, but this time they crawled and hugged each other. It made me laugh.
"They grow up so fast." Coraline said with tears in her optics.
"Oh Primus here we go." Hot Shot said leaning up against a wall.
We laughed, but I stopped when I felt something run in to my leg.
"Oh Starly, are you ok?" Rain said picking her up. Starlight was crying but made no noise. This wasn't normal, she should be screaming in pain.
Just then the alarms when off causing both the younglings and us to cry out. Bumblebee hid behind his creator and Starlight hid her face in Rain's shoulder.
"Hot Shot, stay here and watch them." Rocket said picking up Bee and giving him to his older brother.
"But I…ok." Hot Shot said after receiving a look from Rocket and took Bumblebee.
Raindown reluctantly gave Starlight to Hot Shot, she kissed her helm and ran out of the room with me. I was worried that a bot so young was watching them but we had not other choice.
Hot Shot's View:
"I can't take care of them." I said out loud. "I'm only five stellar cycles!"
I sighed and I looked at my brother and Starlight. I set them down and they looked up at me and tilted their heads in confusion.
"Well…go play," I said looking back at them. "Go on."
Bumblebee made beeping noises in a high pinched voice
Starlit turned to him and warbled back to him in the same voice.
"Huh?" I didn't understand. The sparklings can't talk yet, but they seemed to know what one another is saying.
Then they sat down and stared at me. I looked down and them, they looked really small now. I was at least ten feet tall and they where at least three or four feet. So I decided to sit with them to seem less intimidating. They both sat up and backed away even before I was on my knees.
"I won't hurt you." I said.
They beeped and started to crawl.
"Hey wait." I cried running after them.
They screamed and started to laugh. 'Oh I get it, they're playing a game!' I thought to my self. So I laughed and cashed them. We must have played chase of at least two megacycles and where having such a blast I didn't ever notice our parents came in.
Optimus's View:
When we entered the main deck we saw all three of them playing together.
Starlight laughed crawling up to Hot Shot and holding on to his leg.
"Oh no you got me. I am going down." He said pretending to fall and sitting on the ground.
Both little bots laughed and hugged Hot Shot.
"So much for not wanting to spark sit Hottie." Rocket said smiling at his son.
"I…never said that." Hot Shot said holding Bumblebee and Starlight in one arm.
"Uh huh sure." Coraline said sarcastically.
Starlight warbled reaching for Raindown.
"Hi Starly," she said taking Star form Hot Shot. "Did you have fun? Maybe Hot Shot should spark sit more often."
Hot Shot's optics flickered with excitement for a nanosec, but being him he had to act like it was nothing. Typical youngling.
"Aw, they where nothing really." He said folding his arms.
All four of us rolled our optics.
"Well, I think I need to call the Autobots to this room for a debriefing. So, Hot Shot, if you don't mind taking them to the bunker…" I said giving him a look.
"Ok sure." Hot Shot said, his optics flashing again.
"Hot Shot!" both Starlight and Bumblebee shouted.
We all looked at them in surprise. They weren't suppose to talk until they where six months.
Hot Shot's View:
I took Bumblebee from creator and Starlight from Raindown and headed out the door. As I walked out I heard our parents talking about the reasons why they where talking so young. I just wondered why they said my name when, especially Starlight, barley knew me. I shook it out of my head and started walking again.
I don't know why but I felt like using the tires on my stabilizing servos to get there faster. As we speed through the base, the sparklings where cheering and laughing. When we stopped at the door to my families bunker they where still laughing, and where now starting to hiccup.
"Hot Shot!" Starlight giggled.
Maybe I was wrong about them; maybe it wasn't so bad to spark sit.
When we got in I set them down and they started crawling again. That's about when they started to make a strange chirping noise. It was different from the beeps they made then they where away from each other, this one sounded like a bomb was about to go off.
"What's wrong?" I asked, as they sat down and looked at me.
Then Starlight fell over and didn't sit back up.
"Oh slag." I said running over to her. "Starly, you ok?"
When I got over to her I saw that she was powered down, not offline but sleeping. I looked at Bumblebee and saw he had powered down too, only he was sitting up. I smiled to myself and scooped them up, and set them on Bumblebee's berth. As they lay down they cuddled up to one another. They looked like an old bonded couple only smaller. The only other thing older bots didn't do was suck on their thumbs, like these two did. Bumblebee also put an arm around Starlight's waist and Star cuddled closer to him. It made me laugh.
I must have also slipped into recharge because again, I didn't hear them come in.
"Hot Shot…Hoooot Shooot." Creator said shaking me gently.
"*Snort* Huh what?" I said waking up to see blurred images. "Oh I …I must have *yawn* fallen asleep."
"I see that." She sad laughing. "Go ahead and go back to recharge."
"Not before we thank you." Raindown said pulling me in to a hug and kissing my helm.
"Come on Rain." Optimus said laughing and picking up Starlight.
She stirred and whimpered for a second and Bumblebee chirped.
I think they knew they where being separated again.
Poor Sparklings. hey I have another story that I'm writing so stay tuned!