Book Of Male Reader One-Shots:

Six Decepticons and a Sparkling.

A/n: Sparkling name - S/n.
Optimus' POV:

As I walk through the base, watching over the members of the Autobots and the human children I can't help but worry, it has been a few months in human terms since we had last encountered the Decepticons.

Our last interaction, was a battle over a cybertronian stasis pod what was in it no one knew. Except for the Decepticons that is, by now they have either killed another ally of ours or added a new member to their group.

If the latter, I am worried why Megatron has been so silent recently if he has another soldier to his armada.

"Any readings old friend?", I ask our medic as he scans over the aged monitors.

"*sigh* Nothing, like all the times before. No attacks, raids or anything of the sort. You're stressing our comrades Optimus, the pacing and the questions it's not helping anyone. Go for a drive, the first sign of trouble and I will open up a ground bridge.", Ratchet suggested placing a hand on my shoulder.

I merely nodded to his words and left the base, shifting as I did so leaving a trail of dust behind me as I travelled.

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3rd POV: Elsewhere on the Nemesis;

"Ahahahahah!"

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

Vehicons wandered the halls of the menacing battleship, their red visors emitting an ominous emotionless glow as they continued their monotonous tasks. Ignoring the distant unknown  laughter and shaking explosions as they continued.

That was until the door to the bridge opened to reveal a slightly smoking and burnt Starscream crawling out of the entrance, "Blasted Sparkling, where did he find that thing.", he muttered cursing as he continued to crawl to the med bay.

Inside the Bridge there were a few Vehicons operating the controls, standing guard at the doorway and others cleaning up a large scorch mark in the centre of the room. Megatron was also there, along with Soundwave and surprisingly Airachnid who were all huddled together looking down at something held in the Tyrants hands.

"Lord Megatron have you never held a Sparkling before? That's not how you do it.", the sinister spider themed Femme commented before taking what seemed to be a rather small Cybertronian, a baby Sparkling.

There was nothing really noticeable about the sparkling, it was small, had bright f/c coloured optics, it's body mainly consisted of silver with a splash of sf/c on its shoulders and pedes. It giggled slightly as Airachnid gently held it and supported its head against her shoulder.

"Hmm", the femme smiled as the sparkling reached for her faceplate.

"How did you do that?", Megatron asked in mild surprise seeing the once energetic Sparkling now become as peaceful as he ever thought possible.

"You forget my lord, before the war I was a surrogate Carrier for orphaned Sparklings. When their sires were in the mines or the pits I cared for them.", she informed as the larger mech who nodded in understanding recalling his own surrogate Carrier and his Sire when he was just a sparkling.

The silent Soundwave, watched the scene before him as his tyrannical master could do nothing against a small and defenceless sparkling but he couldn't help but have a small smile grace his faceplate hidden behind his visor.

"My Lord.", a vehicon approached whispering so as not to startle the Sparkling which was now in recharge.

Megatron turned, "What is it?", he asked in a hushed growl.

" We are running low on Energon reserves, and Knockout wanted to inform you of something he found within the stasis pod.", the vehicon addressed as Megatron nodded stealing a final glance at the resting sparkling within the Femmes servos before silently heading towards the med bay.

Upon arriving in the Med bay, Megatron spotted the ash covered Starscream resting on a berth in recharge as Knockout examined a small Stasis pod on the other side of the room.

"You wished to tell me something Knockout?", Megatron broke the silence startling the extravagant medic who spun around in surprise.

"Oh! Lord Megatron! I didn't hear you come in, *cough*, yes as you instructed I examined the stasis pod the Sparkling arrived in. There wasn't much to gather after the crash but I do have its designation, S/n.", the medic informed as Megatron raised an optic ridge before returning to his permanent scowl.

"Good, well done Knockout.", Megatron began as he looked at the battered frame of Starscream, "Once our Seeker is repaired I want him to overlook a new mining operation, Sparklings need a lot of Energon to develop, tell him if the Autobots arrive to contact me as soon as it happens.", and with that Megatron left heading back to the Bridge.

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Meanwhile, as Megatron was returning to the Bridge, Airachnid continued to hold the resting Sparkling within her arms. Although smiling she couldn't help but recall her grim past of being a surrogate Carrier, how the Sparklings she cared for often died to a lack of enough Energon, how she hated to see the upper echelons throw away such large amounts of energon when even a small amount could prolong a Sparklings life for many cycles to come.

She hated how when the war broke out, she was on the outskirts scavenging for energon the Sparklings that she tirelessly raised were killed in a bombing ordered by the Autobot leader Zeta Prime and his aide Tailgate. Being overwhelmed by guilt she became a monster, attacking others and eventually offlining Tailgate but it was too late in the end. She couldn't bring back the Sparklings that were lost.

As the femme recalled her past, she was unaware that Megatron had returned and gently took the sparkling out of her servos.

"Airachnid, go have some energon and recharge. I will be here looking after S/n.", the tyrant reassured the femme as she nodded and returned to her quarters.

"Soundwave, have you been able to find any signals after S/n arrived?", Megatron asked to which his silent communications officer displayed a cross on his visor.

"Tell me if there is anything. In the meantime it looks like the Decepticons will have to raise this Sparkling.", Soundwave nodded to Megatron's order as he took a silent photo of Megatron and the resting Sparkling.

A/n: Done! I had this idea for a while, what if the Decepticons had a sparkling and looked after it. Megatron forgets about Prime and focuses on the child, gave Airachnid a more tragic backstory and the other bots would all be uncles on the Nemesis.

Thoughts? If I were to make a story out of this it wouldn't have hundreds of chapters and definitely wouldn't follow the series. It would be a short story in a sense, more original in a way.

Would you guys prefer to see it as a separate book?