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Rodimus smiled as he wheeled in a stroller full of Sparklings into the rebuilding headquarters. It was Halloween on Earth, and the young Prime wanted the little ones to experience the holiday. It was a little hard to make the costumes, but with a little help from Thunderclash they were done in time.
“Aww they’re so cute!” Acree said as she greeted them in the lobby, “surprise for the parents?”
“Yep! A few mechs are going to give out treats for anyone dressed up in costumes,” Rodimus said, “and I wanted to make sure that the sparklings had the chance to celebrate with their creators.”
“Aww!” The pink fem squealed, “ooh how are you going to get past Prowler?”
“I was hoping that he would make an exception for just today,” Rodimus said sheepishly.
“I highly doubt that,” Acree said, “but I do know a way to get around Prowl.” The pink fem turned around and waved over a crowd of fems. “Hey, we need to distract Prowler so Rodi can get all these sparklings to their careers, it’s a special night tonight, so we want the sparklings to have a great time with their families!” There was a chorus of cheers from the group and soon they dispersed.
“You didn’t have to do that,” Rodimus said, “I’m sure-”
“Hey, everyone’s been working hard to rebuild all of Cybertron and its moons,” Acree said, “we all deserve a night together. Plus, don’t you have a movie night with Thunderclash planned?”
“You’ve heard?” Rodimus said, the sparklings squealing in excitement hearing Thunderclash’s name.
“Yep, I’m glad you found someone,” Acree said, “plus you two look good together.”
“Thanks,” Rodimus said. The sparklings squeaked and the older mechs laughed, “I need to get these little ones to their parents, before anything accidentally tears.”
“Good luck!” Acree said as the Prime started to walk towards the elevator.
Bumblebee sighed as he placed the last data pad he was working on into the done pile. Today was Halloween, a human holiday that he wanted to celebrate with Blurr and Hornet. It would be wonderful to take Hornet trick-or-treating, but because of how busy everyone was with rebuilding he and Blurr didn’t have enough time to make or buy a costume.
“Love Bug, do you have time for lunch?” Blurr asked, gently opening the door to Bee’s office.
“Yes!” Bumblebee said, getting out of his chair, “maybe we could pick up Hornet from Rodimus and have lunch as a family.”
“That would be amazing!” Blurr said before pausing, “is everything alright?”
“Oh it’s nothing,” Bumblebee said; Blurr gave the minibot a look like he didn’t believe him, “It’s Halloween, and we’ve been so busy with rebuilding we forgot to get a costume for Hornet to take her out trick or treating.”
Blurr paused before saying, “OHPRIMUSIFORGOTIT’SHALLOWEEN!”
“I recorded a human Halloween special,” Bee said, “we can hand out treats and watch it with Hornet.” Blurr was pacing around the room, panic gone to his helm about forgetting the holiday. “Blurr, you did remember to buy the treats, right?”
“IFORGOTTOBUYTHETREATS! Blurr yelled, and Bumblebee sighed.
“We can pick some up on our way to pick up Hornet,” Bumblebee said, “though it’s going to be hard to get her not to eat them all. Hey, everything’s going to be fine, we got this and next year we can give her the best halloween ever!”
“You’reright,” Blurr said, taking a deep breath, “Everything will be alright.” Bumblebee pulled his mate into a hug and listened to Blurr’s spark. It was going to be a great halloween, even if they forgot about it.
“Am I coming at the wrong time?” Rodimus asked, “If I am, I can always go to Sire and Megs first if you want.” The two looked at the Young Prime and then to the sparklings in the stroller, all dressed up in homemade costumes.
“Did you-” Bumblebee said before pausing.
“Make the costumes, yes with some of Thunderclash’s help,” Rodimus said, putting the breaks on the stroller and picking up Hornet, the little sparking wiggling and trying to get to her carriers. “I thought that she would look cute as a little flower.” One of the yellow petals flopped over the little sparkling’s faceplates, only moving once Rodimus smoothed it back.
“She’s absolutely adorable!” Bumblebee squealed, reaching out and taking the little sparkling from Rodimus.
“Hey Hornet, can you tell your carriers what I taught you?” Rodimus asked.
The sparkling looked up at him for a moment and then smiled, “wick or weet!” and held out her servos, expecting a treat. Rodimus laughed and placed an Energon gummy in her servo. Quickly Hornet shoved the treat in her mouth and giggled. Blurr and Bee’s optics were wide, almost as if they were going to cry.
“Thank you so much Rodimus,” Bumblebee said, “You don’t know how much of a life saver you are!”
“Don’t mention it,” Rodimus said, “oh I brought a few extra bags of energon candies just in case anyone forgot to get some.” Walking back over to the stroller, Rodimus grabbed a big bag of candy and handed it over to Blurr.
“Thankyousomuch!” Blurr yelled.
“You're welcome!” Rodimus said, “and have a happy Halloween!”
Soundwave watched as Jazz and the cassette placed Halloween decorations around his office. The front of their house already looked terrifying, but the tape deck didn’t see why they needed to decorate his office. Rhythm had kicked the large spider on their lawn when the wind moved it, and the last thing he needed was a surprise visit from Rodimus and all the sparklings getting scared from all the decorations.
“This is going to be the best Halloween Cybertron has ever seen!” Jazz said, placing a fake bat over the door of Soundwave’s office.
“Ya! And we're going to get a bunch of treats!” Rumble yelled.
“Did you see what Cliffjumper and Mirage are giving out!” Frenzy said, “They have full sized rust sticks!”
“Query: Don’t you two need a costume?” Soundwave asked.
“We got costumes!” Rumble yelled, “I’m going to be a pirate!”
“And I’m going to be a Ghost!” Frenzy said confidently. Soundwave rolled his optics behind his visor. At least it was more original than Ravage’s cat costume. With a sigh, the tape deck slumped in his cushy office chair. He and Jazz were going to take Rhythem out for her first trick or treat.
“Query: did you remember to get Rhythm a costume for trick or treating?” Soundwave asked. There was a big plan coming up, and everyone had been so focused on it. The tape deck hoped that Jazz remembered to make or buy a costume.
“I thought you did!” Jazz said. Soundwave gulped. Perhaps Jazz or himself could sneak away to one of the shops and buy a quick costume, or maybe buy a sheet and cut out optic holes to be a quick ghost. A knock at the door brought Soundwave out of his thoughts.
“Hope I’m not interrupting anything,” Rodimus said, Rhythm toddling behind him. The little sparkling was dressed like Madonna in her Material girl outfit. It was adorable, “I thought you two would want to see Rhythm’s little costume.”
“Is that my sweet sparkling?” Jazz asked excitedly, scooping up the sparkling.
“Ooo, she’ll get a lot of treats with that costume!” Rumble and Frenzy said at the same time.
“Rhythm: looks nice. Rodimus: made the costume by himself?” Soundwave asked, getting out of his chair and walking over to get a closer look at his sparkling.
“Thunderclash helped,” Rodimus said sheepishly, “we had a lot of fun making them together. Oh! Do you guys buy treats?”
“Yep! Lazerbeak and Buzzsaw are going to be passing them out.” Jazz said.
“Rodimus: any Halloween plans?” Soundwave asked.
“Oh, Thunders and I are going to watch movies and hand out treats.” Rodimus said. Rhythm looked over at Rodimus.
“Trick or yeet!” the sparkling yelled, causing the adults to laugh.
“Still trying to get a hang of that aren't ya,” Jazz said.
“She’ll get it soon enough,” Rodimus said, giving the little sparkling an Energon goodie.
“Hey, we want one!” Rumble said, Frenzy going around to his other side.
“I got enough for everyone, don’t worry about it,” Rodimus said, grabbing some fun sized rust sticks and handing them to the cassettes.
“Rumble and Frenzy: what do you say?” Soundwave asked, but it was more of a reminder.
“Thank you!” The cassettes yelled.
“You're welcome!” Rodimus said before leaving the office.
Megatron sighed as he looked over some building plans. There were so many arguments and changes to his original design. Some things stayed, while other parts changed.
“Megatron, are you busy?” Optimus said, standing in the doorway.
“No, just looking over the changed plan for my project,” Megatron said, “I want this to be special. It’s the first thing for the Sparklings that we’ve built. I want them to love it!”
“And they will!” Optimus said, walking into the office, “but this will be outside. We have to think about the practicality of this.” Megatron huffed.
“Ratchet said that it had to be twins proof, whatever that means,” The former warlord grumbled. Optimus laughed.
“The only thing that’s twin proof is his Medbay,” The Prime said.
“Are you two busy?” Rodimus said, Amazonite in his arms. The little sparkling in a Virgina Woolf costume, “because you have a visitor!”
“Is that our baby?” Optimus said, walking over to Rodimus and taking Amazonite into his arms.
“She looks adorable,” Megatron said, “we were going to pick up a costume for her after work.”
“I know you’ve been busy,” Rodimus said, “Do you have-”
“Candy. Yes, Elita made sure we were all stocked up,” Megatron said.
“At least someone was prepared,” Rodimus said with a sigh.
“I’ve heard through the grapevine that you have a movie night with Thunderclash,” Optimus said in a teasing tone, “so what else are you-”
“Got to go, bye!” Rodimus yelled and ran out of the room.
“That was mean,” Megatron said.
“This is the season,” Optimus said, laughing at his son’s embarrassment.
Ratchet scowled as he saw Drift, Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe in the waiting room of his clinic. At least his mate was unharmed.
“Ratch!” Sideswipe whined, “Sunny doesn't want to go trick or treating with me!”
“We are grown mechs!” Sunstreaker yelled, “we don’t need to go trick or treating.”
“But I wanna go trick or treating!” Sideswipe whined, “I even got us matching costumes!”
“Now I really don’t want to go with you,” Sunstreaker said. Something dawned on Ratchet.
“Drift, did you get Red Cross a costume?” Ratchet said. The room went silent and the three mechs looked at him.
“I thought you did,” Drift said, “we agreed that you were going to get him a costume and that I was going to get the candy.”
“Ohh Ratty’s in trouble,” Sideswipe and Sunstreaker sang.
“Pipe down or I’ll weld you to the medical berths,” Ratchet grumbled, turning to Drift the medic became sheepish, “I’ll get him a-”
“If you say that you're getting him a costume after work I’ll make you sleep on the couch,” Drift said, “we are getting a costume now!”
“Am I interrupting anything?” Rodimus said, Red cross in his arms. The sparkling was wearing a doctor’s coat with a toy stethoscope and wrench.
“You're right on time,” Drift said through gritted denta.
“Aww is that Ratty’s bitty!” Sideswipe cooed. Red Cross tried to hide from the large red bot by clinging onto Rodi’s chassis.
“You're scaring him,” Sunstreaker growled, “back up.”
“I’m not scaring him, he’s just shy!” Sideswipe yelled. Ratchet sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
“Both of you are scaring my sparkling,” Ratchet said, “go over to the corner and I’ll be over there to resolve this petty fight soon.” The twins grumbled, but followed the medic’s orders. Red Cross turned towards his carriers and smiled.
“I know you’ve all been busy, so I’ve made the kids Halloween costumes with Thunderclash’s help,” Rodimus said, handing the sparkling over to Ratchet.
“Rodi,” Drift cooed, “you didn’t have to. You're a busy mech too!”
“It’s no big deal,” Rodimus said, “it was fun!”
“Thanks,” Ratchet said, “It’s been a great help.”
“Don’t mention it,” Rodimus said, “do you guys need any candy? I got some extra.”
“We’re good on the candy front,” Drift said, “I didn’t forget it.”
“Nice!” Rodimus said, “I hope you guys have a good time!” The young Prime left and Ratchet sighed. That was one last thing he had to worry about.
“Alright, now we’re going to go get some lunch, change into our costumes, and go trick or treating,” Drift said, “Pharma is going to watch the clinic tonight.”
“Hey!” Sideswipe yelled, “your going trick or treating? I wanna go too!”
“If it’ll keep the two of you out of trouble for the night, fine,” Ratchet grumbled.
“Do we really need more full sized rust sticks?” Cliffjumper asked, “we have more than enough for the trick or treaters. You're going to create a shortage.” Mirage looked up from his tablet.
“I will not have my crystal roses destroyed because someone didn’t like the candy I was giving out,” Mirage said.
“No one will destroy your roses!” Cliffjumper yelled.
“Did I come at a bad time?” Rodimus asked, standing in the doorway. Mirage and Cliffjumper looked over at the Prime, and their sparks started to race.
“Are the twins alright?” Mirage asked.
“Did anyone try to hurt you while you were out with them?” Cliffjumper yelled.
“Everything’s fine,” Rodimus reassured the two worried parents, “I just came by to show you the twins’ Halloween costumes.” Rodimus walked out into the hall to grab the two sparklings.
“I thought you got the twins costumes,” Mirage whispered to Cliffjumper.
“I thought you did! While you were buying candy!” The red minibot whispered back.
“I think these fit them, don’t you?” Rodimus said, holding a twin in each arm. Sapphire was in a little princess dress, and in a little tiara. Ruby scowled in his little prince costume.
“They’re adorable!” Mirage cooed, “absolutely stunning! Did you make these yourself?” Mirage took Sapphire and Cliffjumper took Ruby.
“Thunderclash helped,” Rodimus said, “I thought it would be cute for them to have matching costumes.”
“How much do we owe you?” Cliffjumper asked, “these are really nice.”
“You guys don’t have to pay me back,” Rodimus said, “I know everyone has been really busy recently. I just wanted you guys to have a night with your families.”
“Thank you Rodimus,” Mirage said, “It means a lot. Not just the costumes, but for caring for the sparklings as well. It’s been a great help.”
“Don’t mention it,” Rodimus said before leaving, allowing the family some time for themselves.
Starscream’s wings fluttered. Tonight was some human holliday that a bunch of mechs were excited for. In some parts, the seeker was excited to get free candy.
“Starscream, your wings are creating a distraction,” Perceptor said.
“I have to agree with Perceptor,” Shockwave said, “your fluttering is distracting Skyfire.” Said shuttle had over poured the water in his beaker and the liquid was getting everywhere.
“Can you blame me? It’s Halloween, the holiday of free candy!” Starscream yelled.
“Ooh I have a candy cannon!” Wheeljack yelled.
“Please don’t tell me you're going to shoot candy at mechs and fems,” Perceptor said.
“We’re taking our sparkling out tonight,” Skyfire said, “please don’t shoot at us.”
“I make no promises,” Wheeljack said. The rest of the room except the explosive scientist groaned. Ratchet was going to wield Wheeljack to a medical berth if he caused any injuries. The entrance alarm rang out in the lab and all the scientists looked towards the door. They had the alarm installed to make sure no one got hurt when entering the lab, and so far no one had used it. All of the scientists showed up at the same time so as not to interrupt their processes.
“I hope there's no explosive chemicals in here,” Rodimus said, poking his helm in the lab.
“Not out at the moment,” Shockwave said, “Why do you ask?”
“Because you guys have a special guest!” Rodimus sang, coming into the room fully. Behind him, Snowscream stood in the doorway taking in the sight of the lab. He was dressed in a lab coat and had a plastic beaker in his servo.
“Our little scientist!” Skyfire cooed, walking over to the sparkling and scooping him up.
“Are you ready to help carrier and sire before we go trick or treating?” Starscream said sweetly. Hearing trick or treat, Snowscream held out his servo for some candy.
“I’ve been trying to get him to say trick or treat, but he just holds out his servos and waits for the candy.” Rodimus said sheepishly, handing the tiny sparkling a small Energon goodie. “Do you guys have enough candy? I have a few extra bags.”
“Oh no we-” Skyfire said before getting cut off by Starscream.
“Oh we completely forgot about candy!” The seeker said.
“You're not the only ones,” Rodimus said, pulling a bag of candy out of his subspace and handing it to the seeker.
“You’ve been such a good help Rodimus,” Skyfire said, “I don’t know what we would do without you.”
“Don’t mention it,” Rodimus said, “I just want the sparklings to have a good night tonight.”
“I know we will,” Starscream said.
“I hope to see you guys tonight,” Rodimus said, “but I have to go and get ready for tonight. I still need to find a movie for Thunders and me to watch.”
“I hope you two have fun,” Wheeljack yelled. Rodimus’ faceplates heated up and ran out of the lab. The older mechs laughed at the young prime’s embarrassment.
“Alright Starscream,” Perceptor said, “give some of that over.”
“You know the rules of bringing food into the lab,” Shockwave said.
“Candy tax!” Wheeljack yelled. Snowscream squealed, shoving his servo’s out to try to get some of the candy.
“Vultures, all of you,” Starscream grumbled, but opened the bag and started to give out some of the candy. When the seeker got to his mate, the shuttle smiled and pulled Starscream into a deep kiss.
“All the sweetness I need is from you,” Skyfire said once the kiss let up.
“Sap,” Starscream muttered, placing a peck on Skyfire’s cheek. Snowscream scowled and shoved his servo’s out. “I have your candy, don't worry.” Placing an Energon goodie into the sparklings servos. Snowscream squealed and popped the treat into his mouth. The sight made Starscream’s spark melt, his mate and sparkling happy.
“Come on, let’s get something to eat,” Skyfire said, “it’s going to be a long night.”
“But we-” Starscream started to say.
“We’ll clean up after you two,” Wheeljack said, “go have a good night with a sparkling.”
“Thank you,” Skyfire said, “we owe you.” With that the family left, walking servo in servo with a sparkling between them.