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The seekerling ran as fast as he could away from his carrier, who was drunk on high-grade energon. His carrier has been drinking said energon ever since his sire died and when she drank, she was extremely violent to her own mechling.

Having enough of his Carrier's abuse, the seekerling ran away from his home in the middle of the night, having sustained injuries from the same day because of his carrier. But, having no where to go and becoming very sleepy, he went to an alleyway and fell into recharge. Whining as he does so.

A few weeks later, an Enforcer was patrolling the city of Vos since he was assigned to keep the peace in that city on Cybertron. A few orns back, he had gotten a call from a sparkling that his and his siblings were being abused by their sire and has since then taken custody of the three sparklings. Once he was done with hia shift, he decided to head on back to the station to report when all of the sudden, he heard someone crying. He walked over to the source, which was in an alleyway and was shocked by what he saw. There, was a very young seekerling, who looked so weak from lack of energon. The mech knelt down in front of the mechling and asked, "what are you doing here little one?" The seekerling only whined in response.

Sighing, the enforcer picked up the seekerling who was too weak to protest. 'I should take him to the hospital'. He thought to himself still not sure where the young seeker came from. Once he got to the hospital, he went to a friend of his, who is a medic. "Skyjet! So what can I do for you this time?" The medic asked enthusiastically. Said mech brought up the injured seekerling and showed him to the medic.

"By the AllSpark! What happened to him?" The medic asked in shock at the sight of the injured seekerling. "I don't know Vialbreak, I found him like this." Vialbreak looked at the tired mechling and told Skyjet, "I'll tend to his injuries right now, but he can't stay in the hospital overnight, can you take him to your place for the night and take him home in the morning?" Skyjet looked at his old friend in surprise, "Listen Vialbreak, I can't look after another sparkling, I'm already taking care of three-" he was interrupted by a tight squeeze around his chasis, he looked down to see the seekerling hugging him tightly, whimpering.

Vialbreak chuckled lightly, "He seems to trust you Skyjet. And believe me, I feel like your other sparklings would appreciate meeting such a sweet young seekerling." Looking down at the orange and white seekerling Skyjet sighed and knelt down to the mechling's eye level and smiled asking, "What's your designation kid?" The orange and white sparkling looked up at the enforcer and said shyly, "Sunstorm." "Well Sunstorm, I'm going to take you to my place for the night and take you home in the morning, is that okay with you?" Sunstorm whimpered a bit before nodding shyly. After Vialbreak fixed Sunstorm up, Skyjet picked him up, which caused the orange and white seekerling to flinch slightly. Skyjet looked at Sunstorm thinking to himself, 'what did happen to him exactly?'

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After Skyjet got back to his place with the orange and white seekerling, there was a crash and a yell. "Hey! Stop that bro!" "Why should I? It's your fault that it broke!" Skyjet sighed as he walked inside with the seekerling in his arms to see a yellow mechling arguing with a red mechling. standing in front of the two of them, was a orage femmeling, possibly trying to keep the other two from killing each other. "What happened here kids?!" The sparklings jumped and turned around, the mechlings smilimg nervously* "Oh, H-Hey Skyjet." The yellow sparkling said nervously.

"Dreadwing, Skyquake, what happened?" The two mechlings started blaming each other which disappointed the enforcer, so he turned to the orange femme. "Darkblade, do you know what happened?" The femmeling sighed, "Dreadwing accidentally broke this vase. Skyquake got mad and said that he was going to tell and they got into a fight." The orange femme looked at the orange and white seekerling that Skyjet was holding. "Who's this?" She asked him, which gained the attention of the twins. Skyjet smiled and said, "This is Sunstorm. He's going to be spending the night with us tonight and then I'm taking him home in the morning." Sunstorm smiled shyly at the other sparklings. "HI! I'm Dreadwing!" The yellow sparkling said loudly, making Sunstorm flinch. "Excuse my twin, he's an idiot." The red sparkling said.

"No I'm not Skyquake!" Dreadwing said, punching his twin on the arm. The orange sparkling sighed as she came up to Sunstorm, "Nice to meet you Sunstorm. I'm Darkblade." She stuck a servo out and shook Sunstorm's servo. Skyjet smiled at how well Darkblade got along with the orange and white sparkling as they all had their energon. "Do you want some energon Sunstorm?" Skyjet asked Sunstorm, who nodded. Skyjet poured some energon out and gave it to Sunstorm, who gulped it down hungrily. "Wow Sunstorm!" Dreadwing exclaimed, "You must've been hungry!" Sunstorm nodded, which made Skyjet suspicious. 'Why was Sunstorm so low on energon when I found him?' He thought to himself.

That night, Skyjet awoke to the sound of whimpering. He went inside the room that the sparklings were sleeping in and noticed that Sunstorm was whimpering in his sleep, apparently having a nightmare. He went inside to comfort the seekerling when he heard Sunstorm saying in his sleep, "I-I'm sorry... P-Please don't hurt me!" Skyjet's optics widened as he said that. For some reason, he felt really suspicious of the home that Sunstorm lived in. If Sunstorm was having nightmares like that, then something serious was going on in the kid's home and he was going to get to the bottom of it.