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Starscream was tired as hell. When wasn't he? With the recent betrayal of Megatron, the many deceptions being captured and an incident he still had to wrap his proccessor round happening all at once, He deserved to be tired.

He groaned and pinched his nasal ridge, wings hiking up and flattening against his chest before flapping out, his spark ached and throbbed as he reached over for his 3rd oil canister and sipped it quietly. It was early in the Human solarcycle and he hadn't recharged for over a week. He was constantly wanting fuel, then puking it back up just to be hit with sharp pains all through his chassis because he puked the oil up. Starscream groaned and leaned back in his chair, wings uncomfortably coming to rest by his sides. 

Hopefully keeping this thing would be worth it in the end, just maybe he'd have tiny little wings and his colour scheme, or her...

Starscream hadn't thought that the newspark could be a femme, he had nothing against femme's, he knew they could be just as deadly as an overcharged mech. Maybe a femme wouldn't be so bad. It didnt matter though. Even if it did matter, he wouldnt care. Femme or mech starscream would teach the sparkling how to be an ideal leader, if he ever offlined his heir would take the throne.

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"I like the name Sunny" Wheeljack mumbled and continued working from his desk, Starscream, who was sat on the floor fixing his null ray, lifted his head and glanced at the scientist, "Im sorry, what?" he muttered as his wings twitched in annoyance, "we're not naming this newspark sunny of all names." "If not sunny, then what about ThunderSong or Gatekeeper then?" Wheeljack suggested again, shaking his head amusingly when the jet scowled and shook his head, "We'll be here all night with you choosing, 'jack." Starscream huffed and continued to fiddle with his broken nullray, "Okay..What about Solaris for a 'lil mechling?" , Starscream lifted his head again, his optics flicking between the floor and wheeljack, "...i guess Solaris isnt that bad..For a mech anyway" They both went back to doing their own things, the tension in starscream's shoulders and wings was barely noticable, but wheeljack noticed anyway, "Hey star', what's pulling on your wing joints, hm?" Wheeljack hummed quietly and stood up, walking over to the other mech and tugging him up by his arm, "I was simply thinking..What if this newspark is a Femme?" he grumbled and pulled his wings to his backstrut before fanning them out with a few flaps, "A femme? well, a femling would be pretty cute in my opinion, do you have any designations in mind?" Wheeljack lead the seeker towards the small living area in the hidden lab, tugging him down until both sat comfortably on the cybertronian sized couch, "Well, i was thinking OrbitalTracker or RubySong-" Starscream listed off a few more names, but one of them stuck out the most, "AstronomySong, sounds pretty good for a Femme" the grounder smiled and opened a datapad, looking over schematics for Camouflage tech.

Starscream hissed and sagged his wings, letting wheeljack carefully massage the stress from his backstrut and abdomen, "You really are stressed hm?" Wheeljack smiled softly, watching as starscream chirped quietly and let his armour ruffle out into a more comfortable position and his protoform go limp, "ive been in worse situations." "But you weren't carrying in those situations, were you?" Wheeljack's doorwings perked in victory as starscream went quiet, indicating he'd won this. "Dont get all smug now 'Jack, i can feel if in your EM field." Starscream muttered tiredly, his optics flickering as the tension slowly dissapeared from his sore protoform. He groaned at the sharp pain that made his whole frame jolt and curl in on itself, "Star?" Wheeljack asked, worry lacing in his voice, "'m fine..the newspark is causing me some pain thats all" He grumbled and tried to relax back into wheeljack's arms, who pulled his chestplates against his own, the throbbing ceased after a second, "seems they were just calling out for their sire" Wheeljack chuckled softly, his digits drew patterns on starscream's upper backstrut, softly pinching his wings and causing them to flutter softly, Starscreams response was muffled as his faceplates were wedged into wheeljack's neck cables. "How come you're getting pain? I thought it stopped a month or so ago" , Starscream lifted his head and hissed at the sharp jabbing at his wings, his flight engine rumbling unhappily, while looking over wheeljack's shoulder, "D'nno, They sort of just..come and go, whenever the newspark decides they want to have me shaking" he chuckled fouly while digging his claws into the couch cushions at a new sensation. It was horribly uncomfortable and painful, starscream growled and bit his derma with a shaky growl, "Easy Star, tell me what you're feeling" wheeljack lifted a servo and rubbed it along the other mech's wing softly, "That was..not right, a weird feeling.." "painful?" "no..as if the sparkling just..did somethin'" He groaned and leaned back, wings flapping to try and find a comfortable position, "Easy there, use your vents" Wheeljack talked quietly, watching as starscream's fans stuttered to cool his rapidly heating frame, his vents working in shallow burts. "This isnt emergance is it?" wheeljack asked, his digits dropping the datapad and returning both his servo's to starscream's arms, "No. no" Starscream muttered while shaking his helm, the pain had calmed over the few minutes he'd been internally panicking, "..no, im alright but now my spark feels off" Starscream shakily stood up, his wings held in an upright position, "Something isnt right." He muttered and headed towards the mirror to the left side of the room, "Star, talk to me." wheeljack persisted, following the carrying mech towards the mirrior. 

"huh..will you look at that" Wheeljack hummed quietly, his servo wrapped round starscream's shoulder, a shaky servo lay on his own, "Well slag" starscream lifted his wings slightly, looking in the mirror at the two tiny newsparks, still glowing bright blue from splitting from eachother, "Well, maybe we can use both names afterall huh?" 

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It was different, a good different. 

Starscream sat on the berth humming quietly, his optics dim in the dark room but he could see perfectly. His wings trembled slightly as he held the two tiny protoforms, their sparkling armour only grey, minus solaris' case, with the hints of darker colours round their servo's and faceplates, both sparklings optics had yet to online but it was close to that time.

AstronomySong was, despite being only a few weeks old, already gaining her carrier's attitude, if she didnt want to be held, fed, she snapped and whined, she was fussy, Starscream noticed, he denied she took after him too much, but inside he was proud about it. She was much smaller then her sibling, being a seeker frame she was bound to be smaller, Astronomy was curious, climbing all round her and her sibling's hovercrib and all over her creators, touching everything she could find under her little servo's.

Solaris was a different case, he was quiet, and loved attention, by the third or fourth day his colours started coming in and that worried starscream and wheeljack, his fans were constantly whirring to keep his frame from heating down. Sol was black and red, with orange dancing round his sparkling armour, splattering his doorwings and pedes, his faceplates were dark, but dots of white (almost like freckles) were painted under his optics and over his nasal ridge. He wasnt as curious as his sister was, but loved digging his needle-like claws into any object he could find, he was constantly squirming, due to his doorwings constantly twitching out of his control. He barely cried or even made sound unless he really wanted something. 

"Star?.." A voice asked groggily, Starscream didnt need to turn round to see it was Wheeljack, "C'me back to the ber'h.." he slurred before groaning and rolling onto his side, "Give me a second 'Jack" He muttered and stood up slowly, walking over to the crib and laying both sparklings down, running a digit over each of their helms. 

"Stop g'ttin out o' berth, star" Wheeljack hummed and pulled his seeker back into the mesh-covered berth, wrapping an arm round his waist and pulling him closer, "Cant help but get up.." "They'll be there tomorrow, y'know that" Wheeljack grumbled and nuzzled his faceplates into starscream's shoulderplate, "I know..", He muttered softly, laying down across the scientist and letting their EM fields mingle and mix together.

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AstronomySong's colours came through within the next week or so, White and blue with hints of red and green along with her and sol's optics coming online, Sol had bright blue optics that stood out against the red and black on his helm, while Astronomy had Dark red optics, much like her carrier's and they stood out against her much white-blue colouration, She loved looking around, especially at her Sire's audial fins, She herself had audial fins but they were much smaller. Astronomy herself was mostly white, blue snaking across her wings, arms, backstrut and pedes, she had red and green splattered round her frame, mostly her faceplates and servo's had green on, while the red almost looked dotted onto her backstrut, spreading halfway across each wing until fading out. 

It turns out the pain starscream had felt when the twins sparks split from eachother was normal, but was usually done under medical watch incase something went wrong. In the twins case, Solaris' frame heated up too quickly, while wouldnt harm him but could harm others. Starscream was constantly carrying the sparklings around, he didnt usually leave the lab due to GHOST and the Autobots looking for him and other deceptions, he did miss flying but seeing the miniscule wing-nubs on Astronomysong's back made some of this worth it. Allthough the paranoia of being caught nagged at him constantly and kept him up all night, he knew they wouldnt be caught unless the autobots were looking for a secret lab that hid a deception and two sparklings.

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"you have got to be joking" Starscream muttered for the third time that night, his wings uncomfortably seated on his back as he lay curled against the wall, both sparklings lay snuggled against his chest were whining unhappily and refusing to take their sparkling grade energon. Wheeljack was at an autobot meeting, so he couldnt help. "you shits want y're sire huh?" Starscream yawned and grumbled, his optics offlining as he stood up, "too bad he's not here..m'ght aswell get some energon then" He mumbled and stood up, his wings stretching awkwardly. Starscream lay both sparklings in one arm before heading into the small livingspace, the Berthroom had a small washracks next to it, both of those connected to a small living room that had an energon dispenser in, that connected onto the lab and main enterance, he headed towards the energon dispenser and grabbed a ready made cube before sitting on the couch.

Starscream glanced down at both sparklings, seeing two sets of optics on him, "What?" he grumbled while re-arranging himself to be half-lay on the couch, Letting Astronomysong and Solaris clamber along his chestplates, he winced when a tiny claw or blunt digit found a way under his flexible armour and caught on senetive wiring, like sol was doing constantly, "Hey, scraplet, stop doing that" starscream hissed and carefully pulled his tiny claws from an armour seam, "its annoying" 

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"come here Astronomy!" Wheeljack laughed and caught the tiny femme as she fell from her spot, her and Sol were around two or three months old and she was trying to walk. Astronomy giggled and clapped her servo's together, seemingly congratulating herself for taking a step, "Yes, thats my little flier!" He chuckled and placed her down again, outstretching his arms. Astronomysong giggled again before going all serious, her tiny wings fluttering on her backstrut as she took a brave few steps forward before tumbling into her sire's arms, "Thats my baby!" Wheeljack proudly held her up in the air, nuzzling her tiny cockpit with his nasal ridge, she cackled and placed her servo's on wheeljack's audial fins. Sol on the other hand preferred his carrier's cool frame, and he loved napping in Starscream's cockpit, or anywhere near starscream really. "Hey star'" Wheeljack hummed as the seeker walked into the living space from the lab no solaris in sight, "Is sol in your Cockpit?" He questioned before placing Astronomy back on the floor, "Yeah, what'd you call me in here for?" He grumbled, now opening his cockpit and handing the half asleep mechling over to his sire and rubbed at one of his optics carefully, "Lean down, Me and trono-" "'Trono?'" "Yeah, As-trono-mysong, nickname" Wheeljack gave Astronomy a small nudge, "Go on sweetspark" he encouraged her softly. 

Astronomy proudly chirped and cooed at her carrier before taking proud steps forward, her wings flapping to keep her upright until she fell into Starscream's waiting arms. Her carrier cooed proudly and lifted the femme up, chirping and keening proudly, she chirped back just as happy and flicked her wings upwards, "Thats my future seeker!" His flight engines rumbled proudly as he nuzzled her affectionately. 

Wheeljack watched as Sol cuddled up to his carrier's chestplates, Sol was asleep on starscream's chest within minutes, Astronomy was sipping on her sparkling-Grade energon that he'd propped up near her tiny faceplates, "Trono, how 'bout you have a nap aswell hm?" He hummed and rubbed some of the energon off her faceplates before taking the energon bottle he created down on the floor before leaning back, She chirped unhappily but soon yawned and lay her helm in his neckcables, "Thought so" , Wheeljack ex-vented and opened a datapad Optimus had given him, Letting his mini family sleep. 

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"NO!" A tiny voice screeched, her small servo's flailing round as the seekerlet tried to smack her sire's faceplates, "No! Nonono!" she screamed and shook angrily, Astronomy screeched and screamed, sobbing as angrily as a 6 month old sparkling could. Wheeljack groaned and held her away from his audial fins when she tried to grab them and dig her blunt digits into the sensitive metal, "im just givin' you a bath Trono, its fine!" He argued back, turning the solvent on and to the lowest setting and a luke-warm temperature, "Its just a bath! You're covered in grime and im not letting Star' spoil you with preening every other day!" He growled and took another step forward, ignoring how Astronomy screamed, kicking her arms and legs out,  "No! No! SiNoo! Nonono!" She screamed loudly, her angry sobs now becoming unhappy chirps and whistles, "Astronomysong! calm down, you're acting just like y're Carrier!" Wheejack pulled the femme under the Solvent and watched as she went quiet, holding a servo out to the solvent and giggling as it hit her soft armour and faceplates, "See, not to bad hm?" Wheeljack smiled as she reached out to try and grab the solvent, Wheeljack grabbed for the closest rag and started scubbing his femling down.

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"No.." Astronomy yawned and mumbled, her optics dim with tiredness from the lack of a nap, "No?" Starscream whistled quietly, holding the femling just above the glass of his cockpit, his engine was running quietly, but strong enough for thr vibrations to start lulling her into recharge, "No.." She vented out warm air, her glossa licking over her small derma, "Why no?" Starscream questioned her while dimming his optics, carefully running his pinky digit along the scuff-bar and down her backstrut inbetween her winglets, she whined and nuzzled into his armour with a yawn, "No...nonononono.." She babbled while digging her blunt digits into his shoulderplates, "Just no?" He hummed and flicked his wings back as he paced infront of the empty berth, passing the crib where solaris was recharging, he frowned and tapped a heeled pede on the ground, his optics narrowing as he checked his chronometer, "Astronomy its too late..er, early, for your bullshit" He groaned and bared his fangs at the wall, pacing slowly until he heard Astronomy's vents evening out, her muttering soon turning into small ex-vents, "..Finally"

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"She has got to stop saying no.." Starscream groaned and lay half ontop of wheeljack, his wings flicking back as Wheeljack rubbed down his backstrut with a servo, "You have to admit its cute though, she takes after you" "She does not take after me!" Starscream huffed and rolled onto his side, ignoring the quiet laughter that got from the inventor, "Okay, haha, you gotta admit she's like you in every way" Wheeljack rubbed his servo down a wing, watching as starscream shuddered and leaned into the embrace with a whistle from his vocaliser, "how so?" "Well, for one, she's Stubborn. Second, she's fussy with everything, just like you. And she hates everything around her, like you" , Starscream huffed and shook his head, looking over to the hovercrib and the sleeping sparklings, "She doesnt act like me.If anything, Sol is a miniature version of you" He huffed as his engine purred softly, Wheeljack chuckled quietly and nodded, "Ofcouse he is, Sol is a big sweetheart" , Starscream simply rumbled his engine and offlined his optics after a few moments. "Goodnight, Star" Wheeljack muttered and offlined his optics, in recharge almost instantly, Starscream flicked a wing and turned to face wheeljack, "Night 'Jack.." 

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Starscream was about to live up go his name. He was about to fragging scream, he didnt want to deal with this, not tonight or any night, "AstronomySong, get your aft over here NOW!" He screeched, stood covered helm to pede in pink glitter of all things. The small femme came skidding round the corner, she looked round with slight curiosity before noticing her carrier, wings fluttering as her optics lit up in fake innocence, but her EM field gave it all away, amusement-fear-smugness is all starscresm felt as he picked the fembot up by her scuff-bar, "Alright you little shit, what made you think of doing this?" He snarled, sitting her down on the makeshift berth, "Do what 'Ria?" she giggled, her wings fluttering to try and distract her carrier from his anger, Starscream didnt fall for it. He tapped his claws against her mid-section, the seekerlet bursting out into giggles and swatting his hand away, "'Ria no!" she burst out in laughter as he continued to tickle her gently, "Well, is the glitter your idea or not?" Starscream finally let her go with an amused click of his vocaliser, Astronomysong slowly stopped giggling while her small fans roared to cool herself down, "No- eek!" She squealed as starscream began tickling her again, his amused hums ans her shrieks of laughter drawing Solaris into the room, "Ri?..", he yawned sleepily, coolant collecting up in his optics. Starscream turned to his other sparkling and shook his armour plating out, getting rid of most of the glitter. He leant down and opened his arms, Solaris tool this as an opportunity to run into his carrier's arms. "What's wrong Bitlet?" Starscream stood up and nuzzled his Mechlet's helm with his own, "'Ria..?" Astronomy questioned quietly, sliding along the berth, "Not now Bit'" He chirped quietly, sitting on the berth beside Astronomy and holding Solaris close. "Sol' whats happened?.." Starscream went to loosen his grip, but stiffened when Solaris whimpered into his armour, he pulled his sparkling close and nuzzled his helm again, "Bit' what's happened?" . Another hiccup from Solaris, Starscream tilted his helm up until baby-blue optics met dark-red. "Words, Sunny." , "N-..Dont hurt.. 'Song..." Sol whimpered and hugged his carrier tightly, Starscream chuckled softly and pulled Astronomy to his cockpit, she giggled and wrapped her arms round her brother, nuzzling him happily. "'Ria would nev'a!" She cackled and nuzzled starscream's cockpit, pulling Solaris close to the both of them, "Awe, Sol' i was just abit angry, but i'd never hurt you two, okay?" He grumbled and leaned back, Starscream mused silently and imagined how wheeljack would react to his softness. Solaris sniffled again and leaned into his carrier's chest, Starscream reset his optics and pulled both sparklings close with a soft hum of his engine, "Promise..?" Sol muttered and sat up, his fans whirring softly as he looked up at the older mech with innocently wide optics, "Yes yes-" he lay down on his backstrut, his wings twitching as the twins giggled quietly between themselves as he shifted on the berth, "Go and play or whatever.." He rolled over and nudged them to the floor, "Okay 'Ria!" Astronomy giggled and grabbed her split-sparks servo before dragging him out. Starscream rubbed his optics with a servo, "Im really going soft aren't I..?" He muttered to himself.

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Astronomy pulled Solaris towards the set-up, childproof mini-lab wheeljack had made for them, She opened a draw and pulled out a child-proofed datapad, holding up some messy schematics for a retractable sword with an ability to set on fire. "Didnt Sire say no weapons?.." Solaris sat down on the desk, his pedes kicking as he looked over the schematic, "But what sa' knows wont hurt him, yeah?" Astronomy giggled and pulled out a prototype, it was small, blade sized almost but it looked just as sharp and just as deadly, "I cant think of how to get it to go in." Astronomy sat down on her small chair, her wings comfortably seated into the soft mesh, "Try.." Solaris muttered and pulled up an empty page, scribbling down an idea with a concentrated look. The design was fairly simple, it was three retractable pieces of metal that fold into eachother then retract into the hilt. Solaris proudly flicked his doorwings up and looked over his scribbly, yet rather detailed drawing for a 4-5 Vorn old sparkling. "Oooh.." The femme looked over the schematics before pulling out a blowtorch, that was way to big for her sparkling-sized servo's, "Is that Sa's blowtorch?" the mechling hummed curiously, jumping off the edge of their small lab-set up, "yep!..Hmm, go get steel from ria's shiny collection" , Solaris nodded and sped off, stopping at the ajar berthroom and poking his head in. Sol's optics lit up and ajusted to the darkness, he snuck into the room and glanced at his sleeping carrier for a moment, thinking about how much they would get scolded if caught. He closed his intake to stop himself from giggling as he opened the lower draw and picked up a few bits of steel, Solaris silently spun round and snuck back to the door, pulling it almost closed behind him. Astronomy waited until he ran over to smile and chirp a thank you, "Let's get working?" "We need the..the.., Optic safers that Sa and Ria wear when using the big-bot lab!" Solaris ran off again into the restricted area, his servo's fumbling round though the draws to find the safetygoggles, He huffed and leapt up onto his sire's chair, pulling himself towards the top draws. Solaris tugged on the handle before it opened and he grabbed the closest things, moving them out the way until small-sparkling sized safetygoggled were in his grasp. "I got 'em!" he chirped and grabbed the pair, pushing the draw closed before jumping and running back to his sibling, "Okay, now are we ready?"

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Maybe fire wasnt the best idea. Solaris gulped as he was dragged into the main lab, Astronomy limp in his carrier's arms. Wheeljack was dealing with the explosion they caused, his engine stuttering as the fire died out. Starscream lay Astronomy down before diving in to help.

"Who's idea was this." Wheeljack growled as he stood faced away from them, Starscream seemed just as agitated, he was cleaning both sparklings down though to he had to stay calm, "Starscream?" Wheeljack questioned, his engine revving in renewed anger, "What?" Starscream asked quietly, still focusing on patching up Astronomy (Who had gotten hurt the most), She whined weakly and lay sprawled on the cooling mat, "Did you let them do this?" He growled, Solaris took a step back and lowered his doorwings as Starscream spun round and stood up, his armour flaring out angrily, "You think i let them do this slag? Do you think im insane? i dont let them touch my equipment nevermind would i let them try and build some fucking weapon!" Starscream's wings flapped out in frustration as wheeljack spun round, "Well why in the hell weren't you watching them?!" wheeljack all but screamed, "You try watching them 24/7, with basically no help and stuck in a cramped environment then! And you aren't any help, you're always leaving me here to deal with yours and their shit-"

That's how the arguement started.

Solaris whimpered and pulled his sister closer, Astronomy grabbed onto his arm for dear life, she whimpered and rubbed at the coolant welling in her optics, "Why are Sa' and Ria' arguing?.." She sniffled and pulled herself to shaky pedes, "No clue 'Song...But its loud" He whimpered and looked towards the door, their creators had taken their arguing to the berthroom, but the aggressive slamming of stuff gave away that they were both basically gaslighting eachother. "come.." Solaris dragged Astronomy to the maindoor, leaning up and pushing the code into the lock and dragging Astronomy outside the moment their was a big enough gap. He gasped at the amount of colour and the sheer size of everything, but he ignored his curiosity and dragged his split-spark off into the woods.

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Solaris tugged his split-spark along as they stumbled and ran through the forest. He didnt stop running until they got to a small forest opening. "Sol..?" Astronomy chirped quietly as she pulled Solaris closer to her spark, the groundlet nuzzled his sister with a frown, their EM fields mashing with Fear-Confusion-Excitement-Worry .He nodded quietly and leaned back on a boulder with Astronomy clinging to his arm. "Im scared.." she frowned and held onto her brother tighter, winglets flicking backwards and lowering down. "I am.. Its big out here.." He whimpered and held onto her tightly, "we shouldn't of left.. Sorry Song.." Solaris whimpered but continued walking on, tugging his split-spark weakly. "Lets find a place where we can stay safe" Both sparklings knew that they were small enough that a bear, maybe even a big pack of wolves, could take them down with or without a fight, their armour was soft, weak enough to easily dent under certain amounts of pressure. "Astro...'mma climb a tree.." She nodded while sitting against the grassy dirt as Solaris began the climb, his sharp claws helping him pull himself up. "Sol, careful!" She chirped and dug her small digits into the ground, " 'm careful!" he soon disappeared into the canopy. Astronomy whimpered and watched from where she sat, her wings flicking back in worry. "i shoulda' been the one to go up.." she huffed and looked up to the canopy, her dark red optics watching every small move, "Sol?!, whad'ya see?" she stood up and leaned onto the tree trunk, "uhh. red building, looks like the one si' says he visits!" Solaris suddenly came skidding down, his claws slowing his descend down the tree. Astronomy grabbed her brother's servo and gave him a look of pure hope, "where?" "this way, c'on!" he giggled and let go of her servo before racing off, she screeched in outrage and raced off after him.

The barn was fairly easy to reach, they had barely had to run that long and the entire time Astro was bugging Solaris to play a game with her and in the end both were tired but excited as it came into view. Astronomysong's heat vision showed two weird protoforms and a few unknown organic movements. She nudged her brother until they both were crouched near a cow field, "signi..thingies, heading t'ward us.." Sol nudged her behind him, his armour heating up as his spark sped up worriedly, "friendly?" He tilted his head anxiously and got ready to fight or flee, his armour steaming as condensation gathered on his sparkling armour. Astronomy lowered her wings in defence to protect the sensitive limbs. Two other sparklings came into view, with two organics, laughing and giggling as they walked through the fenced area. Astronomy gulped and shuffled closer to her split-spark, worried whimpers escaping their vocaliser, the femling of the other sparklings heard it and she turned to the noise, her optics widening as she squeaked in suprise to see two sparklings, "h-hey! who are you guys?" she asked, her rotors whirring in excitement, Solaris growled threateningly and ducked further back, "do..do you guys speak?" the other sparkling walked over, Solaris noticed the difference and guessed one was a flyer and the other a grounder, his doorlets flicked forward as the two organics (he would later find out they are called humans) came closer, eyes wide with awe and shock, "who knew that there were other terrans!" , The splitsparks stopped watching them and glanced over at eachother, "ter..whats?" Astronomy came out from behind her brother who was slowly cooling down the heating of his armour as his spark stopped spinning so madly Astronomy swore she could hear it and finally his vocaliser finally stopped spitting static and nothingness that he came from his defensive stance, "Terrans--..Astro. Si' talk----....b--out the...m som----m...es, says they'r made of th----e...-e-ar'hs stuffs, unlike m---ta....pr--l prot'forms." Solaris' vocaliser spit more static that made the Terrans and organics tilt their heads in confusion but Astronomy nodded in understanding as she muffled a giggle and stood up excitedly, jumping over the small fence to say hello, she ran up to the flyer and held her servo out happily, "Im Astronomysong! my split-spark's designaton is Solaris!" she chirped, her wings fluttering as the small terran gave an enthusiastic giggle and shook Astronomy's hand. "my name is Twitch, thats Thrash my brother, and the two humans are called mo-" 'Mo' waved her arms in hello, "-and Robby!" 'Robby' simply waved his hand. Solaris shuffled awkwardly and stepped closer to Astronomy, his doorwings flicking back anxiously, "So..where did you come from? the cave?" 'Twitch' asked, hovering with a grin, "cave?..well, we lived in a cave..But we had are Ria' and Si', our creators." Solaris interrupted her hovering with a grumpy hum of his engine his light optics gazing over the four infront of them, "Well..are they'r any big bot's r'nd here?..we needa' get home" , Thrash nodded and turned to the barn, "this way!"

When they got the other humans, the one named 'Dorothy' called somebody straight away allthough she offered the two to sit down they waited for awhile until a yellow mech showed up, "..Sparklings?" The yellow mech muttered to himself and kneeled down and held his servo out, "The designation is bumblebee, you two are?" this 'Bumblebee' seemed nice, Solaris pulled further away as Astronomy shook his servo eagerly, "I'm Astronomysong, that's solaris, he's my splitspark!" She smiled, her EM field bursting out with Happiness-Eagerness-Excitement, Bee noticed it mashed heavily with her split-sparks own field that was wrapped tightly to his protoform, but the older mech could feel it quite well, it was full of Worry-Agitation-Suspicion, he held his servo out for the mechling to shake, but he shuffled further behind his sibling, "oh..Sol's armour is weird.. Ria' says its b'cause our sparks split early..and it aff...aa-" "affected." "-affected, his spark" she explained, but solaris muttered under his breath the entire time, "Optimus and Megs are on their way, Bumblebee, until then, Twitch, Thrash, Mo, Robby, give our guests a tour"

The Malto kids showed the sparklings every part of the barn and the fields, before resting behind the barn in the shade, "So..who are your 'creators'?" Twitch smiled and leaned her helm on her knees, watching the her brother and Solaris play a game they called 'Ninja servo' "Our creators?..they said we arent allowed to tell 'em.." Astronomy lowered her head in slight guilt, "Oh, its okay, its fine!" Twitch smiled softly and lay her servo on Astronomy's, the other femme simply smiled and leaned onto the back of the barn, "Do you think your creators will let you visit?" Twitch's grin faltered as Astronomy shook her head, "No...but maybe we could sneak out every few nights to come see you!" She giggled as thrash tripped over his own pedes, "You guys are raised by organics?" Astronomy chirped and shuffled, her wings flapping to find a more comfortable position, "you definatly should! we could have so much fun in the dark!" . Mo smiled and hugged Astronomy's side. All kids perked at the sound of powerful flight engines, "Uncle megs and Mr.Optimus are here!" Thrash set speeding off, Robby and Twitch following, Mo turned round last moment and looked at the splitsparks, "cmon!" she grinned as they followed her round the barn. Solaris went still, staring in awe and fear at the ex-warlord that Twitch was hugging as if she was his life source, Optimus was there aswell and was being welcomed by Bumblebee, "..whaddya we do?.." Astronomy's vents stifled as she whispered, her optics watching the two leaders, "..wait until we get addressed.." He whimpered before twitch came running over, "come say hel-..you guys seem scared" She frowned, allthough saying that loud enough it got the attention of Megatron, who turned to the sparklings with hints of confusion, "No need to be afraid, my ways have changed after being with the Autobots" He bowed his head to the sparklings, who both slumped in relief, "w-well..i-" Astonomy's wings flicked back in fear as her vocaliser reset itself, Solaris stood infront, his optics narrowed in suspicion, "..im Solaris, that there is my split-spark Astronomysong" His servo's stayed behind his back as he stared up at the mech who was more then twice his size, "Well, little one. you will probably already know me, but call me Megatron" His engine revved in a welcome and Solaris returned it by revving his own engine, "Well, unless your creators know our comms, can you give us one of them?" Optimus asked calmly, stood beside Megatron, "Megatron already has our ria'-" "why dont we get si' to get us?" "no..no, because we'd have to stay here" "Okay!" "-as i was sayin'. You already got our Ria's comm..blocked probably" Solaris muttered and watched his sister skip over to twitch as they began to chat happily, "so your carrier is a Decepticon. any other hint i have many of my former comrades blocked", Solaris grinned darkly as his blue optics lighting up,

"The one traitor."

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"the one traitor"

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Solaris thought back to what he said and realised it was a bad idea, a very bad idea. But at least he got an aggressive snarl from Megatron (Solaris also ignored that he almost got punted, but he'll tell his carrier that after) and the former Decepticon leader had to be dragged off by Optimus (he also thinks their conjux, but we'll never know) . He grinned and leaned back in the hay while watching his sister argue with Elita-1 about keeping them locked up in a barn, "relax 'trono, sooner or later our 'ria will find our spark sign..signi- signatures!- and follow them here!" He chirped and stood up, walking over to Elita-1 with a dark grin, "just sayin'..contact our 'ria and give us back. or he'll find out where we're bein' kept. win-win for us!" Solaris watched his sister giggle, her optics trying to burn holes into the side of the older femme's faceplates. "for a sparkling you sure are deceptive." She frowned and lifted a servo to her comm, contacting.. somebody, he didnt know who though. Astronomy pulled her brother back, and gave a tilt of her helm, "what's 'deceptive' mean?" "giving a misleading look, its the Decepticon code!" He grinned and looked back to Elita-1, who was talking on her comm line, "think thy'll give us to 'ria?" "well, they have to. if they dont i'll kill them all!" Solaris giggled and sat back down in the hay, looking at the two Terrans peeking out from behind Elita, he smiled at them innocently as Astronomy ran over to try and say hello, but got stopped by Elita. "buzzkill!"

Solaris groaned while looking round, his optics focusing on every detail that Elita-1 had, from her colouring to how her plating clamped to her protoform uncomfortably, as if she was afraid, "Miss Elita, I'm hungry" Solaris sat up and gave her wide optics, although he just wanted her to stop staring at him,"i'll go get you something. stay here." she ex-vented and walked away, this gave Solaris a moment to reach for his comm and open it his carriers contact and within a few moments his Carrier answered with a panicked screech, "Solaris, where in Unicron's tailpipe are you two?!" Solaris watched Astronomy chat with Twitch as he listened to his carrier, he could tell he was worried sick for them, he could also hear his sire in the back, "We're with Optimus and the autobots..since we left because you two were yelling.. and two Terrans found us.." Solaris whispered, his doorwings flapping as he listened to his creators talk quietly, "Bitlet, is Megatron there?" Starscream asked quietly and his voice seemingly calm but Solaris, although young, knew his carrier was furious, "he was.. and still is, but he got super angry when I told him you were our 'ria, and tried to punt me!" Solaris huffed and kicked at some hay, messing round with it, "He what?.- wheeljac-- round the--- now.!" Starscream seemed to have covered his comm, before he returned to talking a moment later, "where's your sister, Sol? is she okay, and are you okay? no scratches or dents?" "we're fine, she's playing with one of the Terrans, no scratches or den's-" "Sol Elita-1's comin'!" Sol stared at his sister with a glare, "talk to you soon 'ria..our babysitter is back, byebye" and wih that he hesitantly ended the comm. Elita-1 walked in a second later, holding some energon goodies out to the Splitsparks, "Here, energon goodies" she watched at the two grabbed one each and looked them over, both suspicious of the jellified Energon, "We're currently discussing on how to contact your Carrier, and see if he'll negotiate to get the both of you back." Elita mentioned as she ate one of the goodies and sat down cross legged, "What if he doesnt negotiate?" Astronomy finally ate her goodie before lighting up in amazement, "these are amazing!" she giggled and grabbed another one, urging Solaris to eat his own, "Until then you'll stay here, under the supervision of Optimus and me, or Wheeljack and Ratchet." She tilted her helm slightly when both of them perked up at Wheeljack's name, "Are we allowed to leave the barn yet?" Solaris muffled as he ate the energon goodie with a slight frown, "Not yet no, Megatron is still pretty peeved that we're letting you guys anywhere near the Terrans" she offered said Terrans an energon goodie, Twitch and Thrash nodded excitedly and ran to sit by the splitsparks with their goodies, "So, now we know who one of your creators are, is Starscream a good carrier?"  Elita asked politely, her pink armour settling from its previous position clamped against her protoform, Solaris simply nodded and watched Astronomy giggle and take control of the situation, "yeah! one time we almost bl'w up the lab and he saved us!" "..Trono, that was like yesterday." "ooh yeah- and! one other time he.."

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"I still dont understand why you're so peeved about it Megatron, i had a talk with them earlier on, Solaris and Astronomysong are nothing like their Carrier, well, besides how i almost got manipulated into letting them out by Solaris" Elita-1 chuckled and looked towards the barn, spotting four sleeping sparklings amongst the hay, even though she could barely see them due to the time of night she knew they were there, "Deceptive, thats what. If I know anything about Starsc-" "But they aren't Starscream, Megatron." Optimus sighed and placed a servo on the ex-warlords shoulder plates, looking him in the optics, "They're young, and maybe young enough to be changed from one side to another-" Elita-1 held her servo's up and waved them round to stop him talking, "You aren't thinking of keeping them away from Starscream? it'll break the bond they have with him!" She placed her servo's on her hips and stared at Optimus, "Maybe that is the best, Elita-1, one of them could become the future Decepticon leader, and with how clever they both are, that could turn the tides in their favour." Optimus argued back quietly, "Well let me tell you this. Do you remember when bumblebee was a sparkling and he got kidnapped for the first ever time? you did everything in your abilities to find him, you were spark-broken for Primus knows how long until we got him back! You really want somemech,  Decepticon or not, to go though that?" When Optimus went still and seemed to be trying to make his mind up, Elita cheered on the inside and knew he remembered that time, "Bee was terrified when he returned, he didnt leave your side until for ages, dont forget when Bumblebee got his VoiceBox ripped out, you didnt let him out of your sight for months, Optimus. Those sparklings, Nor Starscream and their Sire, dont deserve the fate of being ripped away from eachother." She finished with a sigh and headed back to the barn, not wanting to hear the two leaders bicker on what to do. She looked over and only spotted three sleeping sparklings, Solaris was sat up and staring at her with wide optics, "Why aren't you sleeping?" she asked him, sitting down next to the pile of sleeping bitlets, "How does bumblebee cope with megatron? if Megatron was the one to rip his voice box out?" He shuffled out the pile, and sat leaning against the hay, "Well..i dont exactly know, and let me ask again, why are you up?" She looked over to the black and yellow car that was tucked away in recharge, when she heard a set of tiny vents hiccup she looked over to Solaris with a frown, "I miss my 'ria and si', is Optimus not gon'a give us back?" Solaris whimpered and looked at Elita with glossy optics, she ex-vented and shook her head, "ofcourse he will, i'll make sure you two get to see your creators again" She opened her arms and gestured for a hug, Solaris numbly nodded and shuffled over until he was cuddled into her side, "So.. Astronomy said he was a great carrier and apparently you two got into alot of trouble, hm? how much trouble?" She smiled as the mechling giggled wetly into her side and she ignored how strangely warm his plating was, "We once blew up our energon dispenser.. and Carri'a leapt in over us and took the blow.. he was all hurt but still asked us if we were okay!" Solaris giggled again as his vents puffed out warm air, "Really?" "mhm..and he also built another one with our si'!" Solaris looked up to Elita-1 with a small smile, "Did you ever have Sparklings?" "no, but I did grow up with Optimus, the two of us got into lots of trouble" She chuckled at the memories of the two of them, "Really? were there Predacon's when you two were Sparklings?" , Elita snorted and shook her head, trying desperately not to burst into a laughing fit, "No, no predacons when we were sparklings, that was far before my lifetime" "so..when 'Ratchet' was a sparkling", This time Elita burst into laughter and leaned back against the wood her engine stuttering as coolant welled in her optics, a servo over her intake to muffle her laughter, "no, not then either. Maybe when Alpha Trion was a sparkling but I wouldnt want to ask him that, it'd be disrespectful" she snickered and lay one of her arms round the Half asleep sparkling at her side, "Get some rest, Solaris" He nodded numbly and closed his optics.

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"Damn Elita, when did you become mother-hen?" Bumblebee laughed and looked towards the half asleep femme and the puppy pile of sparklings around her mid-section, "ya sure you aren't like, carrying? sparklings tend to cuddle closer to carrying bots-" "No bee, I'm not carrying," Elita chuckled tiredly and shuffled so Twitch's rotor wasn't uncomfortably digging into the thinner armour round chestplates, "You sure? wouldn't be surprised with how you protected Solaris and Astronomy last night" Bee picked the two Terrans up and lay them down in their usual spots to give Elita more rom to sit up. "No, I'm not carrying, I know how hard it is to loose a sparkling, i saw it with Optimus every time you got taken. I don't think I'd forgive myself if another mech, Decepticon or not, had to go though that" she smiled and lifted herself up, watching the twins optics flutter online, "Is our Carri'a here yet?.." Solaris slurred and nuzzled closer to his sibling, "Not yet, we'll contact him today" She turned and walked out the barn with bumblebee, stopping quickly as not to bump into Megatron and Optimus, "So, figured out what were doing with the twins?" she gave a smile out of fake innocence and walked round them, by the look on both their faceplates, they had come to a decision, "Yes, we're contacting Starscream once they're awake, and we'll find a neutral location to meet" Optimus looked back at Megatron, who was following with a face on, "Megs, what's with the look of a slapped ass?" Dorothy chuckled and looked out her bedroom window, the sunrise lighting up the bedroom she shared with her husband, "Because he has a grudge about Starscream-" "and that seeker had pit-spawn" Megatron huffed and folded his arms, his cannon almost hitting the house, "Oh quit it, They're kids, they don't know any better" she chuckled and climbed into his hand waiting until she got lifted to his shoulder to sit there and drink her coffee, "Still-" "Still nothing. They're sparklings, Megatron, no kid deserves to almost be punted" Elita scowled and rolled her optics at his glare towards her, "You can't always get your way. Those sparklings are being returned to Starscream and its final" She turned and walked off with a huff, her armour clamping to her protoform as she walked away, "Now she's in a huff-" Bumblebee turned back to the barn and watched the sparklings walk out tiredly, Twitch was lazily hovering along, her rotors spinning to keep her upright, "Morning.." she yawned and looked up at the older bots with a lopsided smile. Astronomy grumbled and lay on the floor with a tired chirp, her wings fluttering and sending small bits on sand into the air, "When are we going home?" She muttered and kicked more sand into the air, "Soon, Megatron, get in contact with Starscream." Optimus replied and tapped his pede on the floor, watching as Elita came walking back with a smug grin as Megatron growled and lifted a servo to his comm, straight away it was answered by a hiss, " 'Lord' Megatron." the voice purred, pure sarcasm and smugness dripping into their tone, "Starscream, I assume you know why I am contacting you." He growled and looked at Optimus, who nodded in silent encouragement, "Well, its either because you have my sparklings or you miss me." he listened to the swooshing of a door and the click of tell-tale blasters being connected to armour, "We have both Sparklings, and we're willing to negotiate with you to return-" "You mean Optimus is willing to negotiate, hm? I know you more then you think, the High and Mighty Megatron would just love to offline my heirs." the voice purred, full of pure hate and aggression, "I have changed-" "Haven't changed that much if you tried to punt one of my sparklings? Im willing to negotiate, but if I see one scratch one either of them, i'll become your worst nightmare."  and with that the comm cut out, Megatron's servo's became tight fists as his vents blew out hot air, Optimus let Dorothy jump onto his hand and she slid back into her bedroom though the window, "Megatron-" "I'll rip that seeker's pretty little wings off, for all I care he can-" "Aye! thats my carria' you're talking about!" Solaris hissed as his armour fluffed up while he looked up at Megatron, "Nobody touches carri'a's wings!" "Besides si'" "yeah but he doesn' usually touch them" "he did a few nights ago, wh'n Ria' whispered in his audi'l" Astronomy chirped from where the lay, twitch was now lay over her giggling, and the older bots were giving eachother looks, "yeah tru'. but nobody touches Ca'ria's! wings!" He spat and hit Megatron's knee with his claws, "Optimus, get in contact with Starscream, im not doing that again" Megatron growled and took a few steps back before transforming and taking off with a huff.

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Starscream sighed and flapped his wings a few times before setting his half empty cube down on the table, he looked over at Wheeljack before ex-venting warm air, " 'Jack." He sighed and walked over to the grounder, placing a servo on the lab table, Wheeljack ignored him and carried on working, " 'Jack." Starscream asked again, his pede tapping on the floor, "Wheeljack!" He placed a servo under his chin and lifted it up, his thumb slightly running over his partners cheeckplates, " 'Jack, we cant keep arguing. If we do they wont want to come back, or they'll leave again." Starscream frowned as Wheeljack looked at anything but him, "..Please, Wheeljack, just fragging talk to me or even look at me!" , Wheeljack ex-vented warm air and grabbed both of Starscream's servo's, "Star.." "Just- just let me be the petty one!" He gave a quiet huff as Wheeljack stood and walked round the desk, "we can speak about this when Solaris and 'Trono are back and safely asleep." Starscream nodded and gave him a small peck on the lip, his engine purring quietly, "I have to head to the rendezvous sight, i'll comm you the moment i get there." "Actually, Optimus wants me to meet them there, so i'll be there" Wheeljack leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss, "Sorry for ignoring you, star." He chuckled softly before humming his engine in delight as Starscream trailed kisses down his cheek, chin and neck with rather dim optics, he wrapped his servo's round Starscream's waist, pulling him closer with an amused push of his EM field, "Alright, alright, we can carry this on later" Wheeljack gently pushed Starscream away with a servo, Starscream grinned and took a few steps back, flapping his wings proudly, "Well, i'll see you after 'Jack" After giving a Sultry wink, Starcream let the doors slide open as he transformed and flew out. Wheeljack grinned lazily and looked into the mirror, grabbing a rag and using it to wipe away the black lipstick from his faceplates and neck-cables, "Honestly.. i'll never get tired of that seeker" Wheeljack chuckled and transformed before driving away from the lab, watching Starscream loop round in the air a few times before flying off with sonic-boom.

What Starscream didn't expect was to land at the site, faceplate to faceplate with 5 autobots and his sparklings being held by Elita-one, both fast asleep and relaxed in her loose grip, "Starscream." Optimus nodded his helm in greeting, Starscream responded with a nod, "Optimus, Autobots." He tilted his head rather innocently, yet sneered at the lot of them, "Is there anything you want in ret-" "Carri'a!" A small voice screeched as a red and black blur flew into his arms, Starscream ex-vented and held his sparkling close with a protective flap of his wings, looking out the corner of his optic Starscream could see the smug smile on wheeljack's faceplates. Starscream looked over to the autobots, "Anything wanted in return?" He watched as Elita-one woke Astronomy up with gentle nudges, she ex-vented and looked round with soft optics before spotting her Carrier, gasped and leapt out of Elita's grip, launching herself at him with a happy trill, he pulled her to his side and leaned down to look them both over with sharp optics, his small check over giving the good, he looked up to the autobots with a flap of his wings, "Well, thank you for not letting Megatron rip my heirs into shreds." Starscream tilted his head and nodded at Optimus, who nodded back, he lifted Solaris into his arms before his thrusters came to life with a powerful screech as he flew into the air, hovering and waiting for Astronomy to catch up. Astronomy giggled and waved at the Autobots, "Bye Bye Autobots!" She smiled and set her thrusters off and follower her Carrier, "For a Decepticon he seems like a grade-A carrier" Wheeljack chuckled before looking at a datapad, Elita looked over to R.C with a tilt of her head, the other femme shrugged and glanced at Wheeljack. "Alright autobots, lets head back."

"are you and si' still arguing?" Astronomy twirled round in her newly-replaced lab chair, Starscream was sprawled out on the couch with Solaris snuggled up to his chestplates, "I dont know, 'Trono, we'll talk about it later" "so..is Si' sleeping on the couch again?" Astronomy leaned over the couch-side and giggled, her carrier leaning up and nuzzling her face, " 'ria no-! no nuzzles, 'm too old for them!" She whined and leaned away, giggling and flapping her wings, "Well, if you're too old for Nuzzles you must be too old to be tucked into Berth" He shuffled out from under Solaris and grabbed a claw-file, filing his claws calmly. Astronomy gasped and shuffled over until she was sat on her carrier's lap, nuzzling his cockpit, "No- no! I want my tucks!...Nuzzles for tucks." She huffed, Starscream leant back and pulled her closer with an arm, "Deal" he pulled Solaris' sleeping frame to his other side as Astronomy shifted until she was watching the leant up datapad, "When's Si' coming back?" She muffled, her faceplates still against his chestplates, "Not long now, but you two'll be in recharge, you'll see him the following solarcycle" Starscream lifted both sparklings and walked towards their shared berthroom, he nudged the door open and looked round the room with a small glance before laying Solaris and Astronomy in their separate berths, he leaned over and tucked his son in before turning to the femling, his wings fluttering as he sat down beside her berth, nuzzling her softly, "My little Seeker, get some recharge, your Sire will be here when you reboot" He stood and walked out the room, scanning his hand over a scanner to turn the lights off, "Goodnight, Twins" He chuckled as the doors shut behind him, "So. care to re-visit our earlier plans?" Wheeljack grinned and pulled Starscream towards his chestplates, he twisted slightly until Starscream was leading him to their berthroom, "how bout it, hm?" He chuckled and flapped his wings, the doors sliding open to let them both in.

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"Si'" 

"Sire."

"SIRE!" , Wheeljack shot up with a groan, ignoring the tired hiss he got from a half asleep Starscream, "What?" "Somebody's in the living room waiting for you" Solaris backed out of the room with a giggle, Wheeljack rubbed his helm tiredly and barely processed the words, he stood up and reset his optics before letting the door slide open. Wheeljack groaned and walked into the livingroom, "Hey Elita..R.C.." He mumbled while walking towards the energon dispenser, grabbing 3 servings in his tired daze, "Wait.." He turned round quickly to make sure he saw both femme's on the couch, "Hey Wheeljack, how was your night.?" Elita-One stared at him while Astronomy tiredly sat next to her watching a holopad, "heyy..." he awkwardly chuckled while placing the three cubes on the couch arm, Wheeljack turned and glanced at the still open berthroom door, Acree followed his gaze and ex-vented as she spotted the Starscream shaped mech sat up and glancing though the doorway, "So. care to explain this?" Acree leaned back into the couch with a strained smile. "Well.. it was sort of an accident, I was drunk, saw Star injured and brought him to here. thenn.." "One thing led to another and now we have two sparklings." Starscream interrupted, walking out the berthroom and letting the doors slide shut as he stretched his wings out, he flapped them a few times before walking over to the energon dispenser, "I am assuming only you two have figured this out?" He sipped on the warmed up energon as he leaned on wheeljack, "Yeah, it took one glance and Wheeljack saying something that just threw the answer at me" Elita chuckled and sat up straighter, her backstrut tense, "You're an idiot, 'jack." Starscream sighed and carried on sipping his energon, "So, will you tell Optimus and Megatron?" , Acree shrugged as she watched Solaris mess with a few sparkling sized tools so Elita took on talking again, "Probably not, you haven't appeared on our radar and you haven't attacked me nor Elita-one, you seem pretty friendly-" "Despite that I'm a danger to myself and society?" "You wont do anything that'll put these two in harms way." Elita tapped at her thigh with a digit, Starscream simply nodded and nudged Wheeljack, "Didn't Optimus want to meet with you today?" "oh slag-" Wheeljack grabbed the Energon cube being held out for him and headed to the entrance quickly, "If i dont come back im dead, Bye Bitlets, Star!-" Then wheeljack was gone. "So, how'd you find this place?" Starscream asked as he headed back to the dispenser and grabbed two sparkling sized cubes, handing them to Solaris, who ran over to his sister and gave her one. "Yeah! this is a super secret lab!" Astronomy chirped and sat up, wiggling her way over Elita to sit on the edge of the couch near her carrier, "It was easy, we followed his wheel tracks." Acree rubbed her servo's together and looked over to the other pink femme. "He doesn't hide stuff well does he?" "Nope. I'm surprised he managed to keep me and those two on the low as long as he did" Starscream leaned against the wall, his optics kept on The two femme's on his couch, "Here's a question for ya', starscream." Acree chuckled, from the laugh Starscream knew it'd probably be a stupid question, "You could do much better then good ol' Wheeljack, why him?" All three of them chuckled lowly, "Trust me. He asked me that himself." Starscream placed the cube down and let Astronomy run up to his legs and nudge him, "What?" He mumbled tiredly, optics resetting for the third time, "We're you and Si' still arguing last night?" She looked up at him innocently, but the question made Elita snort and cover her mouth to stop herself from spitting energon everywhere, Acree just giggled into her cube and looked towards Starscream, "No. we weren't arguing, just talking quietly" Starscream leaned down and rubbed her small winglets with an awkward sputter of his twin engines, "Are you sure?" "Yes, Astronomy, me and your Sire aren't fighting anymore." He awkwardly smiled as Elita kept on giggling and glancing over at the lab entrance, "That's why he looked so tired and dishevelled" Elita giggled again, her armour going lax, "So, This is where you've been hiding since you went MIA, huh?" Acree's optics were focused on the show that a holopad was currently showing, Starscream simply rolled his optics and nodded, "Yep, cramped up space in the side of a mountain." He deadpanned, "Damn, you haven't been out on short flights?" Acree watched as Astronomy dragged Elita-one into her playtime, giving the older femme a toy and dragging her onto the floor, Elita simply went with it, grinning like a madwoman. "No, last time I left for my own pleasure flight was during the war and not to grab my runaway sparklings from Autobots." Starscream mused as he sat down while turning the holopad off, both him and Acree watched Elita play with Astronomy like another sparkling would for a moment, before she turned round, "If you'd like, me and Acree can stay here while you go out on a flight, Starscream, GHOST think we're on dawn patrol." She returned to playing with Astronomy, Solaris turned and watched them with quiet giggles before joining, "...That would be great, Both of them seem to like you" Starscream fluttered his wings lazily and stood up, his backstrut popping as he stretched his frame out, "I've spent too much time locked up like a domesticated AcidHound" He headed towards the exit before glancing back, "Astronomy, Solaris." The split-sparks lifted their helms as they heard their designations, "Don't blow the place up, and for once. Be Good." Starscream stressed the word Good  as much as he could, "Mhm!" "alright" and with that, and alot of hesitation, Starscream left the hidden lab.

Elita continued to play with the sparklings but within half an hour Solaris soon looked more anxious then happy, Acree took notice as she thought of what could be wrong, "Solaris, what's wrong little mech?" Acree sat up more, Solaris perked at his name before frowning and sitting on the couch, "I miss my 'Ria.." he mumbled and leaned into the couch, Acree frowned and glanced at him with an ex-vent. "He hasn't been gone long kiddo, he'll be back soon, don't worry about it." Acree noticed that Solaris perked at the mention that his carrier would be back soon, "You seem oddly attached to your Carrier, how come?" Solaris shrugged, but Astronomy lifted her helm, "Its because we've never left our 'Ria's side, he's always just been...there. no matter how tired, how achy, how angry. 'Ria's always there. we never leave his side" Astronomy continued playing dolls with Elita, who, although didn't seem to be paying attention, the subtle movements in her audial fins was a sign she was paying attention, "He never left you alone in here? not once?" "Nope! Not even with Sa'. and Sa' says he's scared to loose us, like he did with Misfire, whoever that is" Astronomy giggled as she continued to play, Solaris simply snuggled into the closest pillow, so neither of them saw the rather warm look both femme's shared. Solaris nuzzled more into the cushion and Astronomy continued to play with Elita happily.

After a moment they all heard the doors slide open with a hiss, and Starscream walked back into the mainroom, "'Ria! 'Ria!" Astronomy shrieked and leapt up, her winglets excitedly flapping as she ran over to Starscream, Solaris leapt up and barrelled himself towards his carrier, both of them happily hugging and excitedly giggling, "You smell like the sky." Astronomy giggled again as she dragged Starscream to come and sit. Elita smiled and squeezed on the end by Acree and watched as the two of them told starscream about what happened when he was out, it wasn't much to be caught up on but Starscream listened to them, humming or nodding to encourage them to carry on, "-and then you finally came back! Solaris thought you were never coming back!" Astronomy giggled before continuing to poke at her splitspark. Elita grinned before clearing her vents with a huff, "Honestly, i'd love to stay forever and watch the two of them, but we have a meeting within the next hour so, uh...maybe we'll see you soon." Starscream just nodded and flicked a wing, "well...thank you, for watching these two." He stiffly muttered, but the grin on Elita-one's faceplates only grew, "No, its finee! me and R.C here loved it!" "You especially, Elita, you played with sparkling toys the entire hou-" "shut up. anyway, ever need us don't be afraid to make wheeljack ask for you!" She smiled before dismissing the two of them, dragging Acree towards the exit and quietly slipping out. 

"Sa's gonna get yelled at right?" 

"Oh yeah. Defiantly."

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"But- Starscream?! that traitorous, unhinged mech!?" 

Wheeljack sat in his on-site lab with a blank look, his digits tapping the metal while staring at the two femme's Infront of him, both of them looked seemingly cross, but one more then the other. Wheeljack opened a small box with a click and popped one of the energon goodies into his mouth, giving a quiet rumble of his engine, "yup" he muffled as his audial fins lit up slightly, "But- but why?! he's mental, wheeljack! you saw him all though the war, he's a schemer!" Acree screeched and slammed her servo's into the desk, Wheeljack popped another goodie in his mouth and momentarily thanked Primus his lab was soundproof on the inside, "yep." He watched both femme's ex-vent at the same time, before Acree continued talking, "And its bad enough you had not one, but two, two fragging sparklings with him! both of them are cleverer among their age, Wheeljack! if one of them becomes the Decepticon heir, and one of them will, the war could change!" She growled and spun back to face wheeljack, "I know that." "What the frag is in those goodies, wheeljack!? stop eating them for at least a minute!" Acree once again started staring wheeljack down. Wheeljack simply shrugged and looked over to Elita-one with barely concealed panic, "Wheeljack, listen, we're your friends, teammates and colleagues, we want to keep you safe, and even better, ALIVE!" Elita now stood up with a frown, "Trust me, Elita, I feel the safest I have in a long time, and content." Wheeljack leaned over and went to grab another goodie, but Acree beat it too him first, slamming the dop close, "Nope. you aren't having any of these." Wheeljack slapped her servo away, "You have no rights in stopping me doing jackshit." Wheeljack opened the small box again and popped another goodie in his mouth, "Seriously are those Edibles?" Elita chirped and shuffled forward on her pedes, "Nope, I'm just tired. cant be arsed." Wheeljack leaned back in his chair with a groan, "Seriously, do you understand how much danger you're in?!" "For primus' sake, yes I'm fragging sure, Acree! I've thought this over a hundred times and even if I was to leave Starscream, I cant and more importantly wont, if you haven't noticed I have two sparklings that hang off me every time I'm home-" "Home?!" Acree snarled and once again flung her servo's into the air, "Yes. home! want me to spell it out? H-O-M-E, the place my family is at!" Wheeljack was now stood up, his armour now flaring out in aggression, "What, Starscream?! Home?! you're actually putting those two words in a sentence? insane!" "Yes, because I know him, and I've known him for years!" Acree's engine was screaming now and wheeljack's vents were puffing out hot air that became condensation near his faceplates and neckcables, "And what, he probably knows you better then any of us do?!" Acree screamed while continuously watching wheeljack's frame twitch, "He probably does!" "And what does he know, huh? how to seduce you into your own berth?!" , Elita-one just watched, keeping an eye on the camera's with a side frame on her HUD, "Frag no! if anything he knows how to not make me want to offline myself every time I have to stay away from them! you don't know anything R.C! Nothing!" Wheeljack's fist slammed into the wall, and the loud crack that came from that, and the hiss from wheeljack's pistons was enough to make the room go quiet, "Did you just?-" "yep." "should I go and get-" "Please."

"What the...Again?" Ratchet ex-vented and carefully bandaged wheeljack's fist up, making sure the nanite-gel was already doing its job on healing the thinner wires, protoform and outer-armour, "What got you so stressed? I haven't seen you make a dent like that-" He pointed to the deep dent and cracks in the wall, "-since The ARK crashed. What even happened?" Ratchet continued to carefully wrap the area with Bandion-wraps. "Nothing" "Not important" "shhshh. nothing happened" Three answers hit Ratchet's audials and he looked at all three of them, "Okay then." What didn't go unnoticed was the tension between Wheeljack and Acree, both of them were tense and twitching badly, "Whatever argument is going on, both of you just resolve it, and don't make the entire group think we have to walk on eggshells to avoid this." Ratchet frowned before turning to leave, his servo waiving as he dismissed himself. Wheeljack grit his denta and leaned back in the chair with a grumble, Acree turned away and looked over his messily-organised lab, "Don't you two think that just, keeping this on the low, might work?" Elita ex-vented and walked over to one of the sides, moving some of the data-pads into more organised piles, "Still-" "No, until either somebot else finds out or Wheeljack tells the rest of the group, what he will, we keep this between us. If this gets out, this could put Wheeljack, Starscream and both sparklings in danger of being a target to both Autobot and Decepticon" "But-" Elita lifted her servo to quiet the younger femme, her audials twitching as Acree stared her down with narrowed optics, "Acree, you heard what I said, we cant put two innocent sparks in danger just because their dumbass daddy fragged a Decepticon." Elita chuckled at the fake gasp and pout she got from the inventor, "How rude, my 'con has a name!" Both of them chuckled and Acree muttered to herself, but both of them saw the small smile on her faceplates. "and his name is Star." "'Star?'" Elita placed her servo's on her hips with a grin, "Yep, Star." Wheeljack's audial fins lit up in amusement, "Truly, his name is Starscream, he is my Star-" "and you can make him scream at night?" Acree's engine stuttered as she burst out laughing at Elita, her armour going lax, "n-no fragging- you did not!" she wheezed, Wheeljack went quiet as his faceplates going a dull blue, "Mhm, you looked pretty dishevelled this morning." Acree nudged him lightly and moved to sit on one of the chairs, "So, how loud is screamer when you really try?" Wheeljack sputtered and tried to ignore how his fins went a tinted pink, "Got soundproof walls?" Elita giggled and spun round in the chair closest to her, "Soo...he screams?" Elita giggled again and looked at Acree before spinning in her chair again, wheeljack just groaned, "he does!" "Shut up Elita-one, you weren't much different back before the war." "Yeah but half the time I was drunk out my processor. cant blame me."

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"Hey bitlets, where's your carrier?" Wheeljack looked at both the sparklings lay on the couch distracted by a holovid, Solaris turned his helm and smiled happily , "Ria's in yours and his room!" He soon turned back to the holopad, Wheeljack peered over it to see what they were watching, it was some human show of the name 'Blippi' , He didn't ponder on it much longer and headed to his and Starscream's room.

"Star, you in here?" He looked round, noticing the seeker sat on their berth staring at him with dim optics, Wheeljack  now only realised how tense the Seeker was,

“Star?-"

"Don't 'Star' me, Wheeljack." Starscream stood up, closing the door with an automatic code from his HUD. The lights flicked on and Wheeljack noticed how angry the seeker was. "Do you have any idea on how pissed I am right now?" Starscream snipped, his wings pinning to his backstrut, Wheeljack ex-vented and nodded slightly, "Im guessing mega-pissed, with how Acree and Elita found the lab.-" "Not just a fragging lab! the place where me and our sparklings are hidden from Autobots, that now know about them and two now know where we're hidden!" Starscream snarled, standing Infront of Wheeljack and shoving him slightly, "You do know that Megatron almost hit Solaris?, hit him Wheeljack! You don't know the amount of pure hate mine and Megatron's relationship was built on, not trust and equality! If he had the chance he'd wipe the both of them out, you aswell and smother it in my faceplates!" Starscream flared his wings out, "They're sparklings, Wheeljack, and this-" He motioned to the room, meaning the entire lab, "-Is meant to be a secret place- and you throwing tire tracks everywhere and not even trying to hide this place puts them in danger! I can fight, they cant!",

"I know that-",

"Then why in the frag aren't you acting like it?! Why am I the one who always has to go super-fragging-sonic until you listen?!" , Starscream spun round, he was pacing now, Wheeljack noted, something he only does when stressed our trying to hide how panicked he is. "Star-" "It isn't just that, if any Decepticon found out about that I have an heir, two no less!- Slag will hit the roof, With how I've acted in the past, I have a bounty on my helm, a big one. I've already got many mech and femme on my Backstrut, I don't need them targeting and putting bounty's on you and those two aswell!".

Wheeljack stayed quiet, letting starscream screech on about how this is bothering him, "I know I cant stop you from being an Autobot, but I could full well stop you from seeing those two!" He stared with a fuzzy gaze, maybe energex goodies weren't the best thing to eat. ,"You'll do what?" "I care for you wheeljack, trust me on my trine's sparks, but you've just put us in danger, and alot of it!- imagine if it was Megatron that found this place?! You'd come back here to us all probably offline, or me being held at ransom. He doesn't give two flying-turbofoxes about sparklings, he hasn't since- probably since his own creation!- He'd come in here, and Offline them-",

"Star he's changed-"

"CHANGED?!”

”Just because he's working with the Autobots now mean's he's changed!? Is your processor glitched? is there some sort of parasite in there!?" Starscream spat, Worry turning into aggression within a few seconds,

“He's throwing you off, conning you. He is the one who created the Deceptions, and by his own fragging words 'One cannot be a traitor to the faction one created', Try all you like, you can't con a con!" Starscream had stopped pacing, and was stood Infront of wheeljack with his wings flared out, armour bristled in defence. "I just can't loose them, not like I did with Misfire. And more importantly, I can't loose you" Starscream took a deep ex-vent, his fans already up two klicks to keep his frame from overheating due to the pent up anger and fear. "I hate being seen as... weak, but I'd loose the last of my, fragile I'll admit, Sanity if you three offline." Starscream sat on the berth, his shoulders tense and servo's shaking, Wheeljack mumbled and sat beside Starscream, pulling him into a side-hug, letting the seeker lean on his shoulderplates,

"Star, You wont loose us, I can promise ya' that, Megatron might not've changed, but he's different, like the prime is reeling him in somehow" Wheeljack grinned as his wording got a quiet snort from his berthmate, "I promise to be more careful, for yours, and their sake aswell." He pulled Starscream down onto the berth, wrapping his arms around his waist and nuzzling into his neckcables, "Promise y' that. Also, where'd you get those energex treats from, ate them all the moment Arcee started yellin' at me" He grinned and rolled them over slightly, ignoring how he could hear Starscream's optics roll.

 “I love ya', you know that?" Wheeljack heard a muffled reply, but took it anyway and offlined his optics.

They definitely had more productive things to be doing, but any chance of a quiet recharge would be taken.

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"'Ria?"

"'Ria!" Starscream lifted his helm to look at both sparklings who were holding up one of his datapads, "What do you gremlins want?...", He grumbled and reset his optics, trying to focus on the bright datapad, "We got bored. and wanna' know who 'Misfire' is.", Solaris happily chirped, pulling himself onto the empty berth. Starscream idly pulled his chronometer up, checking the time, Native planet's time: 20:34. : Voisian time: 238:002:095 , He mumbled and rubbed his optics again, "Who?..."

"Misfire! you've mentioned him before 'ria!" Astronomy climbed up onto the berth aswell, clambering until she was sat on her carrier's backstrut. Starscream tensed before rolling over and sitting up, Astronomy crawling back over to lay over his crossed legs. "How do you know of him?" "When you were shouting with sa' before, you ment-menn...-mentioned him, we wanna know who he is!" Solaris nodded along before curling up beside Starscream's side He ex-vented quietly and shook his helm, "You aren't old enough to know about him." "Aww...but 'ria!.." Astronomy leaned up and tried pulling herself up using starscream's shoulderplates, he nudged her back into a sitting position before flapping his wings slightly, "Alright, how about this, I tell you some information on Misfire, and you two let me sleep the rest of this planet's lunarcycle." He watched both of them sit quietly, before nodding, "Was he a flyer like us?" Astronomy asked, "He was a flyer like us, the exact same frame as me" "Were you and sa' his creators?" Solaris perked up now, listening as his carrier moved to sit more comfortably, "I was his carrier, but he has a different Sire to you two" "Then who's his sire?" "Megatron was, Misfire was created at the start of the war." Starscream let that sink in, watching both of them gape at him with wide optics, "Don't you hate him?" Solaris muffled, his digits tightening their hold on his armour, Starscream wrapped an arm round the small mechling, "I didn't then, no, back then we actually worked together as Leader and Second In Command. Our relationship as comrades was built on equality. until it wasn't, shortly after Misfire disappeared." He shuffled again, Astronomy looked up at him, "What happened to Misfire?" She lay her tiny servo over his own, looking up at him with pure curiosity, "Well...Megatron sent him on a mission across Cybertron with two others, they got ambushed by Autobots and...they were never seen again" "Is he offline?" Starscream shook his helm and reset his optics, turning his servo to hold Astronomy's, "I don't know, and Primus I hope not" He moved Astronomy from his lap before standing up and stretching, "What did he look like?"  Solaris flicked his doorwings up, optics watching as Starscream leaned to pull a datapad from under the berth, once he found it he stood back up and sat down, one sparkling on either side as he powered the old pad up, it booted up with a groan before rows of files came up. Starscream filtered though the files before coming up to one labelled 'MISFIRE'  and clicked on it. Many pictures came up of a magenta, more purple, mechling with bright red optics, dark faceplates and sharp wings, "Woah...he looks like me but purple!" Astronomy giggled as her servo grazed over the picture. The mechling in the picture was sat upon Megatron's chest, his servo's holding onto a tiny, specially made Ion cannon that was the same colour as his armour.  while Megatron had a servo on Misfire's back supporting his small frame from toppling over backwards. He was looking directly at the datapad, bright red optics focused on something behind the datapad, probably Starscream, as his wings were perked up happily. "Woah, he looks just like Astro!" Solaris chirped and leaned over Starscream's knee, servo landing on the pad gently, "Can we see more pictures?" Starscream nodded slowly, sliding onto the next few pictures, Astronomy giggled and looked at the next picture, pushing herself into Starscream's lap next to Solaris. She leaned back as her small engines purred as she giggled again,

"Is he covered in paint?" "Yes, he is." Solaris looked at the picture closely, there was Misfire, and two other seekers, one who could've been blue and black, the other mostly purple and both were covered in paint of all colours, The femme seemed happy, laughing as Misfire slapped a servo full of pink paint onto the other ones faceplates, Misfire himself was laughing, covered in white, red and green and purple paint while dragging his servo down the blue-ish mech's face, That mech was laughing aswell, although it was nothing like how the femme was laughing, he was trying to move backwards as misfire stood infront of him giggling, "Can we play with paint?" Astronomy giggled and looked up to Starscream, who stared down at her with a flick of his wings, "Primus no.", "Who are the other two?", Solaris' servo carefully grazed over each seeker in the picture, looking them over with such curiosity, "The femme is Skywarp and the mech is Thundercracker, they are my trine"

“can we meet them!?"

“pleasee!" Both sparklings had turned round and were looking at their carrier, "Maybe one day you can" "Tomorrow?" Astronomy turned back round and swiped to the next picture, "'Ria its you!" She giggled, Solaris spun round and gawped at the picture with a grin, "you look so...not you!" Starscream looked at the picture and hummed faintly, he remembered that moment, it was the moment he had seen Misfire, just after a 27 hour emergence and him almost offlining twice, but in the end Starscream was proud of himself for it. "Why do you look so tired, 'ria?" Solaris looked at the picture again, "This was the first time I held Misfire, right after emergence" Starscream shifted until he swiped the datapad again, This time Misfire was much older and stood beside two other seekers, laughing and preparing for a launch, "When was this?" "...This was an hour before Misfire's first scouting mission." "The one he didn't come back from?.." Starscream nodded and rubbed his thumb along the screen, staring at it with an ex-vent, Solaris looked at the picture on the datapad, his servo holding onto Starscream's, "Who is he with?" "He's with Fulcrum and Fang, the two mecha he went on this mission with" Solaris nodded quietly and leaned onto Starscream's arm. Astronomy took more of the picture in, Misfire was dragging a yellow-ish green mech she guessed was Fulcrum, he was holding the other mecha's hand and dragging him towards the taller mech, Fang she guessed, was stood there with a few packs of rations, a medical kit and a few other things they might've needed, he was smiling widely, Misfire was grinning and along with holding Fulcrum's servo, he was holding another medical kit. Fulcrum was frowning slightly but with how he was looking at Misfire, it seemed more like a pout. "They look so happy!" 

"He was always happy with Fulcrum."

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Solaris opened his optics tiredly before jumping to push his mesh-blanket off. He slowly slid off the berth, tip-toeing over to where Astronomy was curled up in her own blanket-nest, made by their carrier after she saw his nest, her optics slowly powering on at the movement, "Sol..?" "Shh, we promised to meet Twitch and Thrash tonight, 'mebmber?", Astronomy suddenly lit up, scrambling to jump off her berth, "Think sa' and 'ria are recharging?", She pulled their shared-berthroom door open and poking her helm out, the place was dark, minus the soft glow from red optics. She tiptoed out with Solaris behind her, wings lowered and optics on their lowest setting to avoid being caught. Solaris soon took the lead, the change from a strange, soft metal to a more rougher, louder metal. Both of them stopped at the loud squeak of the flooring. Solaris, after letting out the vent of air he'd sucked in apparently, moved and opened the door, it opened a small bit but it was small enough for both of them to slip out, he pushed the door just enough so a digits could squeeze through before turning to the forest and running into it as Astronomy followed him.

They neared the barn, slowing from their sprint to go hide in the cow's field. Twitch and Thrash were already waiting by the tree, optics dimmer to not alert their family, "Twitch!" Astronomy giggled and dragged Solaris towards them, flopping down in the grass and grinning at the Terrans, "You guys made it!" Thrash smiled and sat up. Both splitsparks nodded before Solaris pushed Astronomy closer, shuffling so he could sit closer, "Any games we can play?", Thrash asked, messing with his digits while looking over the field, "Not any that wont wake up Bumblebee or mom and dad..." Twitch mumbled, her and Astronomy were giggling and pulling flowers from the grass, basically decorating eachother with goofy smiles. Solaris kicked his pedes for awhile, before he leapt up,

"I know! we could play hide and seek in the woods?, but we set up a perimeter using our CPU's!" Solaris grinned and pulled up a side-profile on said LCD, setting up a small area on the map and linking the other three to it, "So, hide and seek? normal one or Hide and Seek Go?" Twitch leapt up, giggling and bouncing from pede to pede, Astronomy stood up, slightly slower and rubbed the tip of her wing gently, "Hide and Seek Go!" Solaris took a few seconds to let it quiet down, before reaching out and tapping Thrash on the arm, "Tag!" And he ran off towards the woods, Twitch giggled and went in a different direction, Astronomy following her towards a more wooded area, "H-hey I wasn't ready!"

Twitch giggled and climbed up a tree, hiding in the bigger branches, Astronomy was hidden behind a few rocks and some brambles, trying to hide her bright finish, "Think he'll go after us first?" Astronomy flattened her wings to her backstrut, sitting against the tree. Twitch swung upside down for awhile. before she sat up and lay on her front in the tree,

"Dunno, He might go after Solaris first, then make it a two on two" Astronomy fiddled with a feather she found, before looking back up at twitch, she had a flower tucked inbetween one of her helm seams, smiling at Astronomy with a slightly-fanged grin.

She leaned back, wings settling into a half-alert position, "How did the Autobots react when we left?" "Oh- angry. Very angry, Megatron himself was super angry. Mr Optimus was calm, he looked angry but calm. Miss Elita seemed pretty relaxed" Twitch tilted her helm, optics zooming on the feather with a curious look,

"What bird is that feather from?"

"..Do i look like i know?" They both stared at eachother for a moment, before Twitch muttered, "Wow, Sarcasm."  Astronomy lay on her back, looking up at Twitch with a grin, "I have a question actually. Why did you seem so panicked when you saw Megatron?" Her rotors spun quietly as she carved hers and Astronomy's names into the tree trunk with a claw, "When he was the Decepticon warlord, he used to beat my carrier until brink of death...many times." "Oh...Wasnt Starscream the Decepticon Second in command?" Astronomy nodded, still fiddling with the feather, holding it inbetween blunt digits, "Yep." "Megatron didn't like me and the other Terrans at the start, but he got used to us!"

"I thought there was only you and thrash?" Twitch rolled off the branch, grabbing Astronomy's servo and pulling her up, deciding to start walking, "Nope! We have three new siblings now, they're sleeping though. There's Hashtag, she's super tall, really strong and erm..whats the word..for someone strong-" "Robust?" "Yeah! She's super strong and really loud! Then there's Jawbreaker, He's super nice! More Robust then Hashtag, and really bulky, But he's gentle, super emotional aswell. The final one is Nightshade, they're nonbinary!, Unlike Hashtag and JB, Nightshade is super slim, really- REALLY! tall, They like science, and built a whole underground bunker for us all to fit in!" Twitch smiled and dragged Astronomy along, the seekerlet nodded enthusiastically and struggled to get a proper walking stance with her thrusterheels.

Solaris slowed to a stop, audials straining to listen to his surroundings. His optics scanned the surrounding forest as he anxiously looked round, he could feel the excitement radiating from his twin through their bond, it didnt help though, Solaris looked round, his audials raising to their highest, the glass-like panels raising. He couldnt talk. they'd light up if he did. He looked round again, spotting a spot of white moving through the bushes. Solaris flared his doorwings, the infomation came back in bundles and confirmed that it was indeed Thrash trying to sneak toward him. Solaris took a step back, doorlets wiggling as he laughed, "Catch me if you can, Thrash!" He grinned, spinning round and racing off into the fields.

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An update about this!!

All my stories have been slowed down but i WILL be slowly continuing them. Falling in and out of fandoms is harsh but we might be back in business!!

its been longer then a year since i updated this and multiple of my stories, and lots has happened since then. But i’ll TRY and work on updates, while editing all these stories so the chapters arent so bulky :/

Anyway thats it! Stay hydrated little rats!