Chapter Seven: A Sparklings Day Out

"Bumblebee, where are your parents?" I asked scooping him up.

Their family lived five bunkers away, but it still wasn't safe for a sparkling to crawl around alone, even if it was inside. We let Starlight and Bumblebee touch before we went to see what was wrong. We got there we saw Rocket, Coraline and Hot Shot all looking frantic.

"Oh my Primus, Optimus have you seen…" Coraline said running up to me. "Bumblebee!"

"We found him in front of our bunker." I said handing a now crying Bumblebee to Coraline.

"How in the world did he get there?" Rocket said running up beside her.

"I guess…he started beeping when he came closer to us…then waited?" Raindown said holding a very squirmy Starlight. "Ok I'll let you down." As soon as she was down she went for Hot Shot.

"Hot Shot…" She said hugging Hot Shot's leg.

"Hey Light." He said picking her up.

She looked so small in his arms. She probably looked smaller when I held her, for I was fifty two feet tall while Hot Shot was only ten. Bots said Raindown was dwarfed by me, because she was twelve feet shorter than me. Then there was Rocket and Coraline, talk about height difference. Rocket was forty five and Coraline was twenty nine. I wonder what Starlight and Bumblebee's maximum heights will be?

Later that afternoon, after another alarm went off, we all gathered at our bunker. The four of us were talking and had our backs turned to Star and Bee. Unknown to us Starlight and Bumblebee had found an unfired bullet and were playing with it. After a few minutes, we heard a loud pop.

"Ahhh!" Both sparklings screamed.

"What the pit?" Rocket said running to them.

Starlit warbled with wide green optics while Bumblebee coughed and backfired.

"Oh Primus," Coraline cried. "Who gave them a bullet?"

"They must have found it on the floor." Raindown said trying to wipe off powder from Starlight and Bumblebee. They kinda looked like Rain and I had when she pulled the prank.

"Someone needs to take them to the showers." I said trying to help.

"I'll do it!" Hot Shot said stunning the rest of us.

"O…ok." Coraline said with a stern but confused look. "But remember don't…"

"Turn off the acid wash. I know creator." Hot Shot said cutting her off. Corday smiled and gave him Starlight and Bumblebee.

Hot Shot's View:

"Ok guy's hold on." I said letting them crawl on my shoulders.I held on to their legs and activated the wheels on my feet.

"Hold on." I said as we took off down the hall.

We raced as fast as I could go passing bots at high speeds; they cursed at me. I laughed at them, and so did Starlight and Bumblebee, until we got to the showers.

"Hot Shot!" They cried, clicked and giggled trying to tell me they wanted to do it again.

"Maybe when we're clean." I said walking them in and setting them down.

I turned on the water and turned the acid wash off. I knew it would burn them and cause horrible damage since they don't have their protective armor plating yet. When the showers turned on they looked up at the water raining down on them. I realized that this might have been their first bath in their lives, too bad they won't remember.

Bumblebee pushed Starlight gently on the arm and crawled away. Starlight then bolted after him at her full speed. Since no one was around I figured hey, why not play for a while, so I joined them. After ten minutes, they where clean and worn out, so I decided that we should leave. I picked them up and was about to leave but just as we where about to, a large Autobot named Black Sunshine walked in. He was the meanest of the mean. I always wondered why he wasn't a 'con.

"This isn't a play area." He said in his low bass voice, he red eyes bore into my blue one's. I was scared but I had to act tough.

"I know, we…we where just leaving." I said turning to Starlight and Bumblebee.

I didn't see Black do it, but he must have turned the acid wash on high for Starlight and Bumblebee started screaming bloody murder. I scooped them up and ran as fast as I could to get out of there. They were crying, screaming, and sizzling. I knew then I needed to get them to Red Alert or Ratchet fast. I powered up my wheels and rushed to the medical bay hopeing I wasn't too late to save them. When we finally got there Star and Bee were screaming louder that I ever heard them scream before.

"RED ALERT, RATCHET, HELP!" I yelled as we entered.

"Hot Shot…what the pit happened!?" Ratchet said turning to me. When he saw them he gasped and grabbed them, put them in the emergency shower and turned the water on full blast.

"I…it was...B… Black Sunshine." I said trying to catch my breath. "We where trying to wash off gun powder a…and he came in and said 'this wasn't a play area' and then he turned on the acid and…and…" I broke down and started to cry. I was worried my brother and Starlight where too injured to be repaired.

"It's ok Hottie." Red said putting an arm around me. "It wasn't your fault. You did every thing you could. Now let me do the rest."

I calmed down long enough to see they where in the shower and looking up into the water like they had earlier. You could barley see them, as if they where walking out of smoke from the battle field. I also noticed they had stopped screaming but you could still hear them crying a little.

Right then an injured bot was wheeled in, had the alarms gone off while we were in the showers? I knew who he was but couldn't put my finger on it until he spoke.

"Nice to see you again," Surefire said looking at me through half closed optics. "How you doin'?"

"Better than you," I said sarcastically. "What happened?"

"The usual, the cons kicked my skid plates, then ripped off my arms and beat me with them." He laughed, which caused him some pain.

"And he's back for more." Red Alert said coming back out from the back room. "Aright Hot Shot, Bumblebee and Starlight are done getting cleaned and Ratchet is patching them up. They should be done in a cycle or so."

"Let me guess, to much acid?" Surefire said.

"Yeah…no thanks to Black." I said walking to the back room to find Ratchet.

I saw Ratchet holding Bumblebee's arm and trying to patch up the hole the acid had made.

"Hold still little bot and it won't hurt." Ratchet said some what calmly. He sounded like he was about to loose his temper, again.

"Oww." Bumblebee said as Ratchet tried to weld again. He was able too after I sat behind Bee and held his other hand.

"There now was that so hard?" he said letting go of Bee.