Chapter Six: A Night with Starlight
Optimus Prime's View:
As we left the bunker and said goodnight, Starlight half way opened her optics.
"Hot Shot?" She said in a sleepy voice.
"No sweetie. Hot Shot's in his bunker for the night." I said.
She shifted in my arms and fell back into recharge. I think all that running with Hot Shot and Bumblebee wore out her servos.
When we got in to our bunker and I went to set Star in her berth, she started to cry.
"What's wrong Starly?" Raindown cooed as she took her from my arms. "Optimus will you get her some Energon? I think she's hungry."
I went to the corner of the room and pulled out a small Energoncube from the dispenser and took it back to Rain. She tried to feed Starlight but Star pushed the cube away and didn't want to eat.
"Ok, what's wrong sweet spark?" Raindown said putting Star's head on her shoulder.
Starlight just kept on crying. Rain then tried to bounce and rock her but nothing worked.
"You want me to try?" I said putting my arms around her waist.
"Would you please?" She sighed handing her over.
Once she was in my arms I started to hum the song again and immediately Starlight quieted down.
"You're good at this. You sure this is you first sparkling?" Raindown whispered as she set Starlight in her berth again.
"I'm pretty sure." I whispered and put a hand on her shoulder. We stood and watched our youngling sleep and "awwed" when she started to suck her thumb.
"Hmmm, Optimus," Rain sighed. "I think we should have another Sparkling."
"I…uhh…" I said taken aback.
"I don't mean now." She said giggling. "I meant when she's older."
I smiled as she wrapped me in a tight embrace. Least to say, we kept each other company through the night.
The next morning I was awoken by a little bot crawling on my chest. How she got there I would never know. She was too small to crawl out of her berth. The fall alone would have injured her.
She was beeping happily while she playfully hit me every once in a while. I smiled when she stopped to explore a gap in my armor. It tickled but I had to stop from laughing so I didn't knock her off. After a while I decided i wanted to play to so I "attacked" her.
"Roar!" I yelled as I grabbed her and pulled her in between us. She screamed and started laughing.
"Mmmm…" Raindown said turning over. "What's going on here?"
"Look what I found." I said holding a giggling Starlight.
"What shall we do with it?" She said rubbing Starlight's cheek.
"I think we should…squish it!" I said and we started to tickle her. Sparklings have all of their wires and gears exposed so it was easy for us to find ticklish spots.
"Ah hahaha." Star laughed when we stopped.
I kissed her on the head and she cuddled in between us. I then noticed she had grown a foot over night; slag they grow fast!
We all laid there awhile and talked, Starlight mostly listened and chirped every once in a while, until Star started beeping.
"Bee!" She cried as she sat up.
Raindown and I looked at each other. We both knew who Starlight was talking about, Bumblebee, but why was she talking so early? I needed to ask Red Alert later.
I put Starly on the floor and she must have super crawled to the door, because I turned away for a nano click and she was at the door beeping louder than ever.
"Bee, Hot Shot!" She said pointing to the door.
"Alright hold on." Raindown said picking her up so I could open the door.
When we opened it we saw Bumblebee but he looked scared and he was alone.