TFP: Youngling

Ch.7~ Heaven is a nice place

I sat on the cliffside that resided above our base, I was careful to sit so the ground wouldn't crumble from my weight. My gaze was fixated on the star filled sky above me, I smiled and cast a last glance at the desert before flopping back to gaze up at just the sky.

Raising my hands up I pretended to grab at the twinkling stars that rested in the blackish blue abyss of the sky. I remember me and Replay used to look out the porthole windows and try to grasp a star. We thought if we could just grab a hold of one we would make everyone around us wishes come true.

"I wonder if we would still be friends. Probably so, me and him would always end up talking about adventures we wanted to have. I wonder if he can see me from the well." I muttered, flipping up my visor I grinned up at the sky. "Hey if you can see me up there you make sure to tell everyone I miss them. I've heard from Miko that in Earth religion the Well of Allsparks is in the sky, who knows maybe you even have those puffy white wings."

I heard the lift behind me rise and the door swished open, I sat up to look at the new arrival. I saw Arcee who looked at me in confusion, she walked over to me and sat down next to me. I smiled at her as she leaned back to smile at me.

"What are you doing up here Stargazer?" she asked, I looked back up to the stars.

"Not much just looking at the stars, Miko said humans have their own Well called Heaven and apparently, it resides in the sky. I thought I'd come out here and talk to some of the people I missed from my ship." I replied, she looked away at the monument that Rache told me was for a mech named Cliffjumper.

"Why would you do that, you'll just making yourself upset." she lectured, I smiled at her before turning my gaze back to the sky.

"I don't know, I don't feel that sad about it today. What about you why did you come up here?" I explained, she looked to the monument again.

"I just like to come up here and look at the stars, besides this is where I pay respects to Cliff." she stated, I smiled at her and leaned back.

"It's nice up here, he has a good view at least," I muttered, looking away from her.

"Yeah, although I think he would have preferred an area with more commotion, he loved the busier parts of the earth." she mused.

"I'm sure he likes it here too, he gets to stay close to you and everyone else here." I offered, she laughed and reached over to rub my helm.

"I guess you're right, I'm sure Cliff would have loved to be near us. I bet he would have loved to meet you, I'm sure he would have been eager to share all the antics he would get up to with you."

"I would have been pleased to meet him, but at least I got to meet you Cee."

"Yeah, me too...You should probably head in Star it's getting late and I bet Ratchet is wondering where you went."

I heard the lift behind us open up and I turned to see Optimus smiling at us. Getting to my pedes I smiled back at him, walking over to us he knelt down and rubbed my helm. He was always so caring toward me; Carrier was right he was a very kind sparked mech. Looking back to Arcee I saw she was gazing up at Optimus a smirk on her faceplate.

"Ratchet's looking for you, it's time for you to go to recharge," Optimus stated, I nodded.

"Okay Opmis, night Arcee," I responded, turning to look at the monument. "Night Cliffjumper and everyone else."

Optimus looked at me confused as Arcee smiled at me waving me off as I half-dragged him to the elevator. As the door closed we began our decent and Optimus squeezed my servo, looking up at him I grinned.

"Who were you saying goodbye to?" he asked, I looked away as we arrived at the base level.

"Miko told me of the Earth version of the Well, she said it was in the sky so I was saying goodbye to everyone. It's a nice idea that they could all be looking down at me, makes me want to try harder to be the best I can be." I answered, he knelt down and held my shoulderplates.

"I'm sure they are all very proud of you Stargazer but never forget that they'll always be with you" he soothed as he touched my chestplates. "Right in your spark."

"Thanks, Opmis." I chimed, he pulled me into a hug and quickly took me into his arms as he began to walk toward the main room.

"There she is, where did you scamper off to this time?" Ratchet asked as he took me from Optimus.

"I was on the roof looking at the stars with Arcee," I answered he looked at me one optical ridge raised.

"Oh really, what for?" he quarried, I leaned into him smiling fondly.

"Miko told me about the earth version of the well, she says that souls look down at people from the sky and are called angels. I went up to talk to some of the bots I miss and Arcee came up and we talked for a bit while watching the stars." I explained, he kissed my helm.

"Who did you talk to?" he hushed I grinned.

"I talked to my friend Replay; he would have loved Earth with all its interesting stuff." I babbled, he looked me curiously.

"Was he one of the other sparklings?"

"Uhuh, he was Blaster and.. um.. Tracks creation, right that was his Sire name."

"Were you two close?"

"Yep, we were together all the time. During that time, he was my best friend, we would always look at the stars together and play games and sing songs. Now that I think about it, he was the only one who had a kind of name for me that wasn't a general term. He always called me Rhyme because when he was just born I had sung to him."

"You feeling alright, are upset?"

"No, I'm fine. It's was kinda nice; besides I don't need to be upset I have you here Rache."

Ratchet looked at me fondly and hugged me closer, I nuzzled into his strong shoulder. I attempted to hug him but could only really grip onto the sides of his chassis. He pulled back and nuzzled our helms together which made me giggle. Ratchet looked at me with such fondness as he gently settled me against his chassis.

"Alright time for bed bitlet, say good night to Optimus." He hushed, I nodded and turned to the Prime who was smiling at us warmly.

"Night Opmis." I chimed, he reached to rub my helm.

"Goodnight little one." He soothed, I nodded and snuggled back into Ratchet as he walked off toward my room.

Entering my room he laid me down on the berth, he went across the room and dimmed the lights. He went back to the berth and sat down at the edge, reaching for the discarded thermal blanket at the bottom. Pulling it up, he covered my frame in the overly large blanket. Snuggling into the warm blanket I looked to Ratchet as he settled down.

"Now what story do you want to hear tonight?" he asked.

"Can you tell me a story about Ja?"

"Sure, how about I tell you about when your Carrier found out about you."

(Ratchet's POV)

Star fell into recharge laying against my side, her mouth was open in a small 'o' and she was venting softly. I gently began to move away from her laying her on her berth, she grumbled a bit before relaxing again. Gently rubbing her cheek I leaned down to kiss her helm. She rolled over resting on her side, at times like this I could almost forget the war that we were still in.

I got up from the berth and went to turn off the light, once I did that I turned around to gaze at her one last time. For a moment I saw a figure standing at her berthside looking down at her, I reset my optics and it disappeared. I guess I'm getting paranoid in my old age, turning I left the room shutting the door behind me. I went to turn to go back to the main room only to see Orion in front of me, I jumped a bit in surprise.

"Primus Optimus you nearly gave me a sparkattack," I stated, he put his servo on my shoulderplates.

"I did not mean to frighten you old friend, you seemed to be in there longer than normal so I came to check. Was she fussy tonight?" he soothed, I looked back in at her.

"Not at all, she may have been a bit too invested in the story I was telling and took a bit to wind down," I replied, Orion, smiled down at me and leaned out to peek in at her.

"What tale did you tell her this time?" he asked as he led me back to the main area an arm holding me across the shoulderplates to his side.

"I told her about when Jazz discovered he was carrying her, she giggled quite a bit when I told her that Prowl fainted when Jazz told him," I explained, we both chuckled in memory.

"Yes, I remember Prowl dragging Jazz into my office to get him off active duty. You stood in the doorway shaking your helm as Jazz tried to hold back laughter. It was quite the sight; I don't think I'll forget that for a long time."

"I don't I will either the look on Jazz's face as Prowl fainted had been quite the sight, he looked almost offended."

"They were certainly an odd couple."

"Some would the same about us."

"I guess they would."