Starscream onlined to Breakdown getting up. The truck rolled his optics when he saw Starscream. Knock Out remained recharging. Starscream snuggled against the speedster, offlining his optics to get more recharge. He onlined again when Dead End appeared and got between him and Knock Out to cuddle with his carrier. The Seeker also realized that Diesel was now in berth behind Knock Out. He could hear Fracture and Wildbreak downstairs talking, and Breakdown in the energon room.

Starscream offlined his optics again and fell back into recharge. He onlined a joor later to Knock Out finally getting up.

"Morning, cutie." He smiled at his youngest. "I love you."

"Love you more, carrier." Dead End giggled, hugging his carrier.

Knock Out kissed his son on the cheekplates, then sat up, being careful of Diesel. "So many sparklings in my berth. I include you in that, Starscream."

Starscream gave him an annoyed look.

Knock Out climbed out of berth and stretched his joints. "Let's get some energon and then we'll go over pictures. Sound good?"

Starscream nodded as he sat up, flicking his wings as Dead End climbed over him and off the berth. He got off himself and took Knock Out's servo before the doctor led him out of the room. Starscream followed him down the stairs and to the energon room where Breakdown had already prepared them breakfast.

"There's my beauty queen. Finally all rested up?" Breakdown smiled.

"Hey, handsome." Knock Out kissed him on the lip plates. "Yes, I am finally rested and ready to go back to berth for more recharge."

Breakdown chuckled. "Your breakfast." He gestured to the plates on the counter.

"Thank you, love!"

Knock Out handed one of the plates to Dead End, then another to Starscream before grabbing his own. Starscream followed the doctor to the couch where they ate their breakfast watching whatever cartoon Dead End decided upon.

Afterwards, Knock Out took Starscream into the Seeker's room.

"Alright, lets see what pictures you want to get printed." The speedster said as he held up a datapad. "We'll transfer them onto this datapad so you don't have to give anyone yours."

Starscream unsubspaced his own datapad as he sat on the berth. Knock Out sat beside him, and plugged a wire from his datapad to Starscream's.

"I think we should hang up the pictures we took at the park. This one of us, and this one of you and Fracture." Knock Out said as he showed Starscream the pictures, then put them into a new file folder he had created.

Starscream nodded. "And… Some of my creators…"

"Yeah? What pictures you want?"

Starscream went through his files. There wasn't much, but he knew what he was looking for. He opened a file and soon had images of him as a sparkling with two Seeker femmes.

"Th-that's my creators." He said softly. "Borealis and Nacelle."

"I can see where you get your looks from." Knock Out swiped through the images. "This one is the most in focus. We can use this one." He then transferred a copy of the image to his own datapad. "What else?"

Starscream swiped some more, only for Knock Out to stop him.

"Awwww, look at your tubby Seekerlet belly! Why didn't you tell me you were a chonkster!? We're printing that one." He then copied the image of a tiny Starscream barely able to walk. "We are printing this one big. I want more sparkling pics!"

Starscream rolled his optics. "I wasn't fat."

"Not as fat as Breakdown when he was a sparkling. Aw, look at you being such an awkward sparkling. I want to pinch those wings. Wait, I can." He then turned and pinched Starscream's wing.

"Ow! Stop." Starscream flicked his wing.

Knock Out chuckled. "No, I won't. They're my wings now." He then swiped at the datapad. "You still have that same confused look. Look at you. Absolutely nothing behind those giant optics. We're printing that one."

"You can't just print the embarrassing sparkling pictures."

"Yes, I can. And we are. You have to have many sparkling pictures up. Especially if they're embarrassing. Look, your carrier isn't here to embarrass you, so I, a carrier myself, must do it for her. She would have wanted this."

Starscream vented. "She would have… Fine…"

Knock Out giggled victoriously. "Give me more sparklin' Starscream!" He squealed, swiping through the pictures with much vigor.

The speedster made sure to grab as many sparkling pictures as he could before moving on to toddler Starscream.

"Gah! Look at you! All these are mine now. And look how big your wings are for your little body. I have to pinch them."

"Ow!" Starscream flicked his wing away. "I'll pinch your tires…"

"Do it. There's no sensory nodes in tires. I won't feel a thing."

Starscream flicked his wings. He'd find something to pinch…

Knock Out kept swiping and looking at all the pictures of toddler Starscream. Him covered in energon as he sloppily ate, one of him playing in the mud, another of him learning to climb stairs, and one of him drawing with chalk on the sidewalk. There was one of him hugging a puppy, another of him crying as a zap pony ate the treat the Seekerlet was offering him, and then one of Starscream with a large, stuffed toy. Knock Out's favorite was one of Starscream on the waste disposal being potty trained.

"That one is going on the wall!"

"NO!" Starscream tried to stop him, but the speedster was too fast.

"Eh heheheh! Potty training sparkling Screamer! I love it!"

"You're horrible…"

"More! Gimme! Aw, your first orbital cycle at school! Look at you! Crying because he's not at home with his carrier. And now you cry when you're not with me. I feel your carrier's pain."

"Shut up."

"No." Knock Out swiped through more pictures. "Aw, messy in arts and crafts. You were a glue eater, weren't you?"

"I was not."

"Uh huh. I don't believe it."

"Stop grabbing the embarrassing photos."

"No. You will have to kill me to stop me."

"That's an option I am considering."

"Do it. Kill me, you glitch." Knock Out looked right at him.

Starscream flicked his wings, then slowly wrapped his servos around Knock Out's neck. He hated how much the speedster trusted him, simply mockingly smiling at him. This mech used to obey his every command! And now looked at him…. He was taking care of him and printing pictures of him as a sparkling on the waste disposal…

"Not gonna kill me, are you?" Knock Out smirked.

"I'm thinking about it." Starscream grunted.

"I don't know… You look like you're actually thinking about me showing everyone you used to command these pictures."

"I did think of that…"

"I won't show Soundwave, promise."

"I would murder you if you did."

"Unlikely. What's that?" Knock Out suddenly pointed behind the Seeker.

Starscream looked back as he perked his wings, allowing Knock Out to quickly grab a wing and pinch it.

"Ouch!" Starscream flicked his wings, then shoved Knock Out back.

Knock Out giggled, quickly leaning over to kiss Starscream on the cheekplates. "Someone has to annoy you. If not me, then who?"

"No one would be best."

"Nah." Knock Out snuggled against him, lifting the datapad back up. "Too bad we don't have pictures of us together as sparklings. Different ages and places."

"That would be weird having you as a friend at that time… I didn't have a good relationship with grounders."

"And I didn't have a good relationship with fliers. I would have gotten the slag beaten out of me if I was friends with a flier when I was a sparkling."

Starscream was silent for a moment, watching Knock Out go through the pictures. "My carriers would have liked you…. Especially with what you're doing for me now."

Knock Out looked up at him. "Yeah? They weren't all functionist and hateful against those not their frametype?"

"Well, I mean… Seekers stick with Seekers. But we lived in an area not with many Seekers because of what happened to my carrier. She had been abused and made an outcast."

"Yeah, I remember that."

"Yeah… So, we had to live with grounders. I mean, carrier, Borealis, she was like… She would have preferred not to deal with grounders. She was very… She was strict and cautious. Not hateful, just… Didn't trust strangers. So, I think she would have been nervous with you at first, but after getting to know you she would like you."

"And your sire-femme?"

"She would like you from the start. She was one of those who just… Became friends with everyone right away. She was all over the place."

"How so?" Knock Out kept looking through the pictures, copying ones he liked. He was now looking at pictures of Starscream when he was ten stellar cycles old.

"Just forgetful. She would be talking about one thing, then out of nowhere talk about something from orns ago. She had many projects going on at once and never finished them. She one time forgot to pick me up from school…"

'That explains everything. You were abandoned for one orbital cycle and it turned you into a little troublemaker for life."

"Maybe the bullying in my school was more of the reason."

"I would have bullied you. Look at this." Knock Out pointed to a picture of Starscream when he was 15 stellar cycles old. "That's a nerd I would have locked inside of his locker and set his science project on fire."

"Har har."

"No, I'm serious. I did that to a nerd once who had this same dopey face as yours. The principal then yelled at me for a joor that I needed bootcamp and be physically whipped because I was a terror…. I set his desk on fire the next orbital cycle."

"I take it back. My creators would have hated you."

Knock Out shrugged. "Can't win them all. At least I'm a model citizen, now." He smirked.

"You left dead animals on my front door step not that long ago…."

"But I didn't damage your property."

"You threw one through my window…"

"You didn't own the apartment so still not your property."

"You're terrible."

"I'm cute."

"Stop taking the embarrassing pictures!"

"No! Who is this person you're dancing with? TELL ME."

"Ugh, that was Slugshot."

"Stupid designation. Tell me more."

"He was just someone I went to school with."

"He's a nerd."

"Yes, well, I didn't really have friends and he didn't have a date for the dance."

Knock Out snorted. "Y'all a bunch of losers. I'm keeping this."

Starscream rolled his optics. "Did your high school have a dance?"

"It did."

"Who did you go out with?"

"Tapout. The guy who took my virginity. We banged during the event, in the booth behind where the DJ was. Then we banged again after the dance. There was so much banging. Everyone in that school was horny."

"My experience was different… Even though I lost my virginity while a teen, the school wasn't… People weren't all interfacing each other."

"How would you know? You were a nerd. No one tells nerds what they're doing. You have to be cool to be privy to that knowledge. See, who would tell this face they were fragging in the janitor closet during class?" He pointed to a picture of Starscream as a teenager doing homework in his living room.

Starscream raised an optical ridge. "Did you…?"

"It was a clean janitor closet, ohmygosh, Starscream, don't think I would ever do it in a dirty one."

"How did you become a doctor when you were interfacing instead of sitting in your classes..?"

"No, idea. But at least I wasn't a nerd."

"It makes sense why you mated a jock…."

"You mocking my mate?"

"No, just saying it makes sense."

"For the record," Knock Out pointed a claw at Starscream. "Breakdown sucked at sports." He snickered when saying it. "He couldn't play sports in school because he was such a clutz." He started to laugh. "He was too fat and would fall whenever he tried to run. I shouldn't laugh, but he was so fat."

"So you married a fat oaf. Why were you so mean to nerds?"

"Not my fault you guys make it easy."

"I could bully your oaf of a mate."

"No, you couldn't. And you know it."

Starscream glared at him. "Whatever. It still doesn't make sense why you mated him when you were so mean."

Knock Out shrugged. "People change. Maybe if a nerd was rich or frag me real good I would have judged you differently."

"So, if I had fragged you, you would have not bullied me? That's what you're saying."

"Maybe it is. But if you fragged me it would be mediocre."

Starscream flicked his wings. "Why would it be mediocre?"

"We all know you're a pillow princess. You just sit there and take it."

"And you don't?!"

"Oh, I know I am a pillow princess and would suck at spiking someone else. I enjoy my place in the berthroom. But if you were to spike me, or anyone, it would suck."

"You don't know what I can do."

"I know enough."

Starscream flicked his wings. "You don't know until you try."

"You offering?"

"Ew, fragging my best friend? That's gross."

"You fragged my brother. That's what's gross. You've seen me fragging. You know me far better than anyone else, besides Breakdown. Also, not gross to frag your best friend. Why you think I mated Breakdown? He's my best friend, then it's you." He gestured to show the levels.

"Well, you haven't seen me, only in what I sent you during our fight."

"You do realize that as your doctor I've seen all of you. I know what your spike looks like, Stars." He then made the universal gesture of something being small. "Not impressed."

"It's not small."

"It is." Knock Out nodded. "Average, actually. You're no Breakdown."

"And you're not?"

"I'm not afraid to tell you I'm at the top of average."

"So, small?"

"Average."

"Small."

"I get big spike whenever I want. I don't care what my size is."

"Small."

"Average."

"Tiny."

"I'm sending the potty training picture to Soundwave."

"Fine! Average…" He then flared his wings. "But if I ever were to frag you, I'd make you scream and you'd beg for me."

Knock Out smirked. "Beg for you to never do it again, maybe, and scream from the barbs on your spike."

"There's no barbs."

"All gremlins have barbs on their spikes."

"Oh, so you're a gremlin expert, now?"

"I'm your legal guardian, am I not?"

"You're an annoyance…" Starscream grumbled.

"And you're a nerd." Knock Out pointed to another picture. "Who'd a thunk that this nerd would command an army. No wonder we lost."

"You have been bullying me this entire time. I thought we were finding pictures to hang up?"

"We are. But I have to roast you, Stars. Look at this nerd face. Gosh, I would have bullied you so much in school…. But now I just give you kisses." He then leaned over and kissed Starscream on the cheekplates. "My nerd bestie." He giggled.

"I guess that makes you my bully bestie."

"Yup!" Knock Out kissed him again. "I love you so much I must annoy you to death. And that means more embarrassing pictures!" He swiped more.

Starscream rolled his optics. He watched as Knock Out kept copying pictures he liked, going through the last of the teen pictures and now into young adult Starscream pictures. There were far less of those, and eventually the only new photos were selfies. Then those stopped.

"No more?"

"I stopped taking pictures for a while because things were busy at the time. Here, the folder of my creators might have more of me."

"We can get more of your creators. Let's see what we got."

Knock Out got the file opened and began to swipe through the pictures. "I definitely can see where you got your looks from. You have her facial structure, but her wings."

"That's carrier and that's sire." Starscream pointed to each as he said it. "Yeah, I have Nacelle's wings for sure."

"But which one made you a nerd?"

"Borealis."

"Why didn't they give you siblings? Were you such a terror they couldn't handle another? Or did you eat your siblings?"

I didn't eat anyone nor was I a terror. Believe it or not, I was a good mechling."

"I don't believe it."

"Well, I was. And I don't know why they only had me. Maybe because we didn't have a lot of Shanix so they couldn't afford more sparklings. I was happy. I didn't need siblings."

"But I wanted to see more fat Seekerlets." Knock Out pouted.

"Well, you got me."

"I do. I wish I could meet your creators and they tell me all the embarrassing stories you won't say. Makes me sad you never got to meet Breakdown's creators. They were the sweetest people."

"I wish you got to meet my creators, too. I wish Fracture got to know them."

"How did they die?"

"Bomb… The building they were in collapsed. They didn't get out in time…"

"I'm sorry. The war took everything and gave nothing back."

Starscream was silent a moment. "It gave me you."

Knock Out sheepishly smiled at him. "Yeah, the one good thing. We got each other."

"At least you can't embarrass me in front of my creators."

"Nah, I have Breakdown to do that for me. But I would ask them all your embarrassing secrets."

"You already have pictures…"

"I do, but I want videos…" He suddenly gasped. "ARE THERE VIDEOS!?"

"No!"

But it was too late, Knock Out was already looking for them.

"Ha! Found videos! Stop. It's too late, now. What do we have here?"

He soon was playing video after video. One of Starscream learning to crawl, then learning to walk. He found one of Starscream potty training and squealed over it before saving a copy for himself. He found videos of Starscream just hanging out around the house playing with toys, some of him talking with his creators, and one of him at the park playing on playground equipment.

"What's this? Oh gosh, it's a school play isn't it? It is! Gah! Which one are you?" Knock Out asked as he watched a video of 6 stellar cycle olds all in costumes with their parents watching them. "Is this you? Gah! That's you as a Glitter Tree Fruit! Do you have lines?"

"I did…"

"Shush, I wanna hear."

Starscream vented a sigh. "I want to see your sparkling videos."

"Oh, I'll share them. I was adorable as a sparkling." Knock Out smiled, never looking away from the video playing.

"He's about to say his line." Nacelle's vocalizer was heard whispering.

Sparkling Starscream in his large costume walked to the front of the stage. He smiled and waved. "Hi, carrier!"

"Shhhh!" Borealis was heard. "Say your line, sweetie!"

Sparkling Starscream giggled. "I am a tree fruit, and I… Uh, I grow big! And birds eat me! And… Uh…." He thought, clearly forgetting his line. "And dexi-squirrels leak fluids on me!" He then snickered and ran back to the other sparklings in their costumes as the crowd laughed.

"Oh, lord…" Borealis' vocalizer sighed.

"That wasn't his line at all…" Nacelle also sighed.

"I'm keeping this!" Knock Out giggled as he saved the video for himself.

Starscream rolled his optics.

Knock Out started to watch more videos, but there weren't too many. They stopped once the Seeker was about 10 stellar cycles old. The speedster then went back to the last folder and resumed looking through images of Starscream's creators, some with Starscream present.

"Nacelle liked to collect things. She was a bit of a hoarder." Starscream commented when images of Nacelle with animal statues and other objects appeared.

"Did you ever collect anything?"

"No, I've never been a collector… Probably good because I lost almost everything during the war."

"Yeah, I hear you. Only reason my family and I were able to keep a lot of stuff is because Velocitron thankfully wasn't bombed. Do you not have anything from your creators besides the pictures?"

"Not really… Just the stuff on this datapad. A lot of their things are too big to hide in a subspace pocket when I also had to carry things to survive. I have like… A small statue from Nacelle's collection. But I rather not produce that. I keep it hidden because I don't trust anyone."

"I understand. You don't have to show me anything. I had things taken from me, too."

"Nacelle would want me to have more things. She liked to have stuff. She annoyed carrier with it all."

"Is that what they argued about all the time?"

"That, and just… Stuff about my school. Because I was bullied there was arguments about moving somewhere else, home schooling me, that kind of stuff. Sometimes they argued over Shanix. They never argued over anything I guess normal couples don't argue about. At least, not around me."

"Maybe because you didn't have siblings they had less to argue about. My creators argued a lot about Grit… And me because I kept arsoning everything. And vandalizing…"

"They argued over how I should learn how to fly, once. Borealis wanted to teach me from the ground and be very slow about it, while Nacelle wanted to shove me off a building because that's how she, and most Seekers, learn to fly."

"How did you learn to fly?"

"From the ground."

"I, too, learned how to control my alt mode from the ground." Knock Out smirked.

Starscream gave him a small shove as he rolled his optics.

"Did they ever drop you as a sparkling?"

"Not that I'm aware of…"

"It would explain everything." Knock Out giggled.

"Were you dropped as a sparkling?"

"I fell down the stairs once when I was…. Four…? I don't remember if I hit my helm. I did break my arm once!"

"Running away from the police?"

"Ha! No, I fell off a zap pony and was kicked. We had zap ponies. Because I was a rich brat. Did you ever ride a zap pony? Or any animal?"

"No, I was poor. We met some zap ponies before at like a rescue, but we didn't adopt them. We got a cybercat."

"Maybe sometime I should take you riding. I should take you to do the things you never got to do as a sparkling because you were too poor to do it. Want to go to Six Lasers? The mechlings are getting old enough for the rides so Breaky and I are planning a trip."

"Maybe…"

Knock Out smirked. "I'll take you." He looked at the datapad again. "So poor. Look at you. Peasants."

Starscream rolled his optics. "Nacelle did try to fix things herself. Like the sink one time was leaking, but after she 'fixed' it the place flooded. Ended up costing more to repair and clean the flood damage than if we had hired someone from the beginning."

"Did you not eat because you had no Shanix?"

"Why are you mocking me for being poor?"

"Not mocking, just not use to it. You do realize I never was around a poor person until my fat Conjunx Endura swept me off my peds. I don't know much about how you people grew up."

"'You people…'"

"You."

Starscream flicked his wings. "You."

"What's this?" Knock Out pointed at the datapad.

Starscream perked his wings as he looked down, giving Knock Out a chance to quickly reach back and pinch a wing.

"Ow! Stop it!"

"Never!"

Starscream flicked his wings at Knock Out, but the speedster only pecked a kiss to his cheekplates.

"I love annoying you." He giggled as he resumed going through the pictures.

Starscream vented a sigh as he hugged Knock Out. He silently watched as Knock Out grabbed a few more images before disconnecting his datapad from Starscream's. The Seeker quickly subspaced his datapad, then snuggled against Knock Out. The speedster finished messing with his datapad before subspacing it and hugging the Seeker back.

"Want to go get these printed?"

Starscream nodded.

Knock Out stood up, grabbed Starscream's servo, and led him out of the room.

"Breakdown, Starscream and I are going to get the pictures printed." Knock Out proclaimed as he walked to the front door.

"Do you want me to come with?" Breakdown asked as he sat on the couch with Dead End on his lap.

"If you come we have to take the mechlings, and they rather stay home playing their new game."

"Yeah, but… There's creeps out there."

"We'll be fine."

"Please, take a gun."

"Okay, I'll take a gun, but don't worry about us." Knock Out turned and started to go to the stairs, Starscream staying close behind him.

"I worry about you. You're so small and cute. Everything about you screams 'easy prey.'"

Knock Out glared at him. "Rude! Absolutely rude…" He then marched up the stairs. "I am cute, but I'm not a weakling…" Knock Out grumbled as he walked into his room, Starscream close behind. "He forgets who can put him in stasis lock and turn him into a toaster while he recharges…" He covered the keypad as he put in the code, ensuring Starscream didn't see it, then opened the gun safe in the closet. "Ugh, what am I feeling…? I feel sassy, so how about the .45?"

"Is that sassy? I feel like that's more of a glitch…" Starscream commented.

"I can be that, too. Look, Breakdown painted my guns. See what that mech did? He painted flowers, glitter, and pink on all of them!"

"Do you hate that?"

"No, I like it. Because when I eventually shoot him for it it'll be more ironic." Knock Out loaded a clip into the gun, checked the safety, then subspaced it. He then closed the safe ensuring it was locked. "Okay, now we go get pictures printed!"

The speedster grabbed his Seeker and took him downstairs. He kissed Breakdown on the lip plates, then pulled Starscream to the front door. Starscream swallowed, nervous about going outside. He lowered his wings and whined loudly. Knock Out looked at him, then kissed him on the cheekplates.

"You can do this. You're brave. It's just us. You trust me, right?"

Starscream nodded. He swallowed, then stepped outside. Knock Out closed the door behind them, then pulled Starscream to the street.

"How is your T-cog feeling?" The doctors inquired.

"Fine…" Starscream whispered, his wings still low, nervous as he saw the neighbors outside.

"Okay, listen, we're going to play a game."

Starscream perked his wings. "A game?"

"Yeah, it's called… Tag!" Knock Out pinched a wing hard before transforming and speeding off, his tires skidding loudly.

Starscream felt his spark drop, anxiously watching his protection speeding off. He knew what he had to do. He leaped up, concentrated, and felt his body shift. It had been a while since he last did this. His engine shrieked as it came to life, then he shot forward with an angry scream of his thruster. He almost immediately overtook the speeding automobile, and had to spiral roll to slow down and get back beside his friend.

Knock Out swerved to the left, quickly getting onto a long stretch of highway that now wasn't used as much. His engine growled furiously as he pushed himself, the revving trembling the ground.

Starscream inwardly smiled. He knew Knock Out knew he would never beat a jet, but he was getting the Seeker to actually have fun outside. He wanted to hug him, but at this speed that would be stupid and deadly. So, instead he'd play his came.

His powerful jet engine roared with such an unholy fury as he powered it fully. He zoomed past the speedster and almost immediately broke the sound barrier, the sonic boom causing the surrounding buildings to shake and glass to shatter. His frame momentarily covered in a skirt of water vapor before he was long gone.

He flew between two towers, circled back around, and slowed down as he neared Knock Out. He circled above, slowing down as much as he could before flying over the speeding speedster. But, even at his lowest speed he would lose altitude and have to circle around at higher speed.

He began to become exhausted, so flew close to Knock Out, nudged him carefully with a wing, then slowed down more before transforming. He skidded across the road for a short ways, wings flaring to slow him down, before he finally did.

Knock Out slowed down as well, turned around, and slowly drove back. He transformed once next to the Seeker.

"Well?" Knock Out smirked, his intakes a little loud and fast, and cooling fans on. "Did that feel good or do I need to find someone to fly with you?"

Starscream smiled, his intakes not as bad as Knock Out's as his short flight was barely anything for what his engine and cooling system could handle. "It felt wonderful. Thanks, Knock Out."

Knock Out snickered. "That could also be said after interface. Why yes, I am good all around, in and out of berth!"

Starscream rolled his optics. He then hugged Knock Out, listening to the loud intakes and cooling engine ticking. He loved this grounder so much.

"Come on!" Knock Out grabbed his servo and pulled him along.

The Seeker followed, the speedster taking him to the store where they could print out the photos. Knock Out plugged the datapad into the computer, and they started to select the sizes of the pictures and doing some basic editing on the images. Knock Out clearly did this a lot, so the Seeker let him handle it all.

Soon, their pictures were printed, Knock Out paid for them, then they went to buy the frames. Knock Out grabbed some single frames and some for multiple pictures. He grabbed one for photos of Starscream and Fracture but the frame could be colored and customized like a craft project so the Seeker and his son could decorate it together.

The speedster paid for it all, handed it to Starscream who subspaced it all, and then the doctor pulled him out of the store and across the street. Starscream perked his wings when he was led into an energon treat store.

"Pick whatever you want, it's on the house." Knock Out smiled at him.

"You don't have to." Starscream whispered, his wings low.

"I want to. You're doing really well and I want to reward you for it. And also because I'm your bestie and this is what I do. Now, pick something."

Starscream slowly perked his wings. He looked at the menu, then pointed at one.

"The energon sundae? Okay, anything else? Want cake?

Starscream shook his helm.

"Okay." He pulled the Seeker over to the counter. "Hello! Could we have an energon sundae, a small sweet bliss, three energon cupcakes, and two slices of the goodie cake? I need the cake and cupcakes to go."

Starscream watched as Knock Out paid for it all, then eventually hand him his energon sundae. He subspaced the cupcakes and cake, they being meant for the mechlings and Breakdown, and took his own treat. He led Starscream outside and to one of the small tables on the deck, overlooking a pond and small park. They sat down and began to eat their treats.

Starscream fluttered his wings. It had been a long time since he had one of these.

"Did you at least do stuff like this when a sparkling?" Knock Out asked.

Starscream shrugged. "Not often. Seekers weren't really liked where I grew up. If we got treats we took them home."

***NOTICE: My friend is... Behind in $$ to me so currently this is where the fic is left at. I will resume when she is caught up with $$ for me.***

Don't you love when your doctor mocks your dick size?

Also, big hint as to where their relationship will go...

Now, my friend has her headcannon being that all Cybertronians are hermaphrodites (an animal that is both male and female, such as slugs, snails, etc). I am fine with that, but a hermaphrodite species lack male and female differences. Such as humans and all other mammals, birds, etc. have male and then female. And the differences are not just reproductive organs (male with penis and testicles while females have uterus, ovaries, and vagina), but skeletal structure, hormones, chromosomes, everything down to the DNA is male or female.

This is why so many people are wrong to assume you can magically change your sex. The hormones and surgeries can't change your DNA, skeletal structures, etc. It just can't. There are some species of animals who actually CAN truly change sex, such as some species of fish and frogs. Clown fish are probably the best known, but it was also this unique ability found in some frogs that was a plot twist in the Jurassic Park book/films. They used frog DNA with the dinosaur DNA and hence why the dinosaurs were able to change sex and start breeding despite the humans only creating females.

If they had used the DNA of different animals, like mammals, that couldn't happen. Now, there are instances of certain birds and reptiles creating clones, such as females who use their own DNA to fertilize eggs and thus a clone baby is made. That could have also fixed that in the Jurassic Park world but I digress.

Anyway, only 3 sexes, most have male or female, and hermaphrodites do not have ANY differences amongst their members. So, a femme and then a mech would be non-existent. It would be just... One or the other or a fusion. And only they would exist.

This is why in my fics/headcanon I have femmes have just female bodies while mechs have a hermaphrodite body. I never had a chance to go into the backstory of why this is and kinda explain the science. Maybe in "A King of Ash" or a future fic I will...But my headcanon as to why there are two sexes with one being a hermaphrodite is because females are the most vital for a species. Females create the babies. One male can impregnate many females at once. You could have one male impregnate 100 females and that's a lot of babies made to ensure the survival of the species.

But, if you have more males than females, that means LESS babies. Example, 100 males and one female means only that one female is making babies and all but one of those males is useless.

So, for the survival of the species, and to ensure the most babies are bred, you want more female bodies, or hermaphrodites. You want the uteruses! So, Cybertronians, a species who literally manipulate their own bodies to adapt and evolve, would have ensured more uteruses to make more babies as less penises are necessary. So, EVERYONE has a uterus, and only half have the penis because those can impregnate many uteruses.

Why would they have chosen to do this instead of having just male and female? Well, we know Cybertronians always have been a warring species even long before The Great War. In my headcanon, they were originally male and female. Then, as their species was losing members fast due to constant war that's when they decided to turn the males into hermaphrodites to have more uteruses to make more babies who can then be thrown into war. So, the end of the males to create the modern hermaphrodites was literally for child sacrifice! Or, at least wait until the child is grown... And then sacrifice them!

And obviously in actual canon they are NEITHER of the 3 sexes because they can't reproduce! No, they are not "transgender" because they need to be... Male or female to begin with... They are robots! But, I'm not going into that science right now. Maybe one day I'll write about it and give people the serious biology lessen they never got because Twitter and Tumblr is NOT biology class, people!

*Hiss*

ANYWAY!

I disagree with my friend on her decision with making everyone hermaphrodites and keeping mech and femmes, but I'm being paid and this is a silly story so... Whatever. Robots can't get pregnant so of course some logic, common sense, and biology will be murdered and thrown out the window.

Ahem...

I'll resume writing and posting when she's ready for me to do so. Until then... Read my other stuff, follow so you know when this will get updated or when I'll post another fic... Go vegan, rescue a kitten, look both ways before crossing the street... All that good jazz. :P