Little Sweet Spark

Chapter Six

The humans shakily, after training, went back to their rooms to gather much needed rest. Tomorrow they will be working on their aiming with Ironhide and Jazz, Jazz was coming along as Ironhide needed him for 'emotional support'. After today he was sure he was going to blow a fuse

Optimus lightly frowned watching Ironhide walking back into the hanger, he wasn't happy with the training he was giving to the humans "Ironhide" he waved him over with a strong stern expression. Ironhide sighed knowing it was about todays training, no doubt the medics gave their report to Optimus.

"Optimus" Ironhide greeted, Ultra Magnus was quickly at Optimus' side knowing he was going to scold Ironhide, Ultra Magnus didn't see what Ironhide was doing wrong. "you're pushing the humans too far, Ironhide. Ratchet gave me a medical report, their muscles and tissue aren't that developed to take on that amount of intense training" he lightly scolded his weapons specialist. Hide grunted looking up to Prime with a scowl

"So? The humans need this training otherwise they won't last a Astro-second on the field" Magnus nodded his head in agreement "i agree Optimus, Ironhide's training will help them against the Decepticons" "And what about their muscles?" Ratchet snapped coming over to them scowling at Ironhide and Magnus.

"Their muscles can easily adapt to my training" Hide grunted trying not to explode in anger, Ratchet cocked a brow "Really now? Because i have 16 new recruits in my med bay nearly crying out in pain! Their muscles have constricted themselves causing severe cramps!" he hissed through gritted teeth and his fists clenched

"But with Ironhide's training-" Ultra Magnus added only to have Ratchet interrupt him "Training?" he scoffed shaking his head, "you call that training? That is physical training for an Autobot, a Cybertronian. To a human, it's torture!". Ironhide rolled his eyes "it is not torture, you are taking this way out of proportion" he stated calmly but in an annoyed tone.

"This is not acceptable training for any human, Ironhide. As Medical Officer i forbid you doing anymore training to them" Ultra Magnus and Ironhide brows shot up in surprise "you can't do that Ratchet" Magnus objected scowling at the Medic "what would happen if the humans went out there without Ironhide's training? If they faced Decepticons?"

Their arguing went back and forth, Epps and Lennox stayed out of it considering they heard their language switching to Cybertronian. Sophia woke up rubbing her eyes tiredly and got out of her sires altmode, she was hungry and she had one really bad nightmare. She approached her sire ignoring the fact they were arguing, her nightmare was more important

Her small hand tugged on his denim trousers "Sire" she whimpered clutching her teddy close to her chest, the arguing immediately stopped and Ironhide quickly picked her up seeing tears gathering in her eyes. "What's wrong?" he asked softly wiping the tears away "nightmare" she whispered hugging her sire close

"And what happened in your nightmare, sweetspark?" he asked softly rubbing her back, she whimpered remembering the death she saw and it wasn't nice. "sire was shot in the chassis, solders laid on the floor dead and a tall silver bot stud in front of me wid red eyes. Matchie had his arm ripped off, Octipus laid under big silver bot fut dead" Ironhide held her tighter and closer to his chest, he sent a pointed look to Optimus and Ratchet confirming he wasn't going to end the training.

After what he had heard from his sparkling, he wasn't going to end his training whether Optimus and Ratchet liked it or not, he wasn't going to allow his sparkling to witness death from both species. Ironhide softly patted her back moving away from his leader, medic and second in command ending the argument/debate.

Walking into the cafeteria Ironhide wasn't surprise to see it completely empty during lunch considering the soldiers were in their rooms gathering much rest. He sat down and began comforting his sparkling, she was still upset over the nightmare and continued to silently cry in his chest.