Life's New Adventures and Secrets

Chapter 6

"Mr. Drift," Emberwing whispered, gently poking the sleeping warrior, "Mr. Drift," she called a little louder.

Drift wakes up, "Huh? What is it?"

"I'm hungry," she whispered holding her stuffed Predacon close.

With a groan, he gets up and goes to get some Energon for her, "Here you go, kid."

"Thank you," she said quietly as she took a sip, "When will Oka-san and Papa be back?"

"Soon, I hope."

"Master, Nightback's gone," Jetstorm shouted as he ran in, sliding across the floor, and bumping into a wall.

"What?" He runs out to look for the kid. 

"You think maybe he went to see his parents in Med Bay?" Slipstream asked following him.

"I would hope so. Jetstorm, stay with Emberwing."

"Yes, sir!" Jetstorm replied. Drift and Slipstream went to Med Bay to see if Nightback was there with his parents.

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Nightback slowly made his way to find his parents. He found them lying together in Med Bay, with their arms around each other. As carefully as he could he curled up between them and drifted back to sleep.

Drift and Slipstream come in and Slipstream sees him curled up with his parents, "There he is master," he tells Drift pointing over to where the kid is with his parents. 

Sighing quietly, Drift left Med Bay motioning Slipstream to follow, "This is why I don't want kids," he muttered.

"But sir, you've already been raising me and Jetstorm."

"You two are different, children require constant looking after. You and your brother are enough."

"Uh... Thank you, sir?"

Drift just moaned tiredly as they walked back to his quarters.

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Emberwing was sitting in the middle of a small clearing in the scrapyard while Jetstorm was sneaking up on her. The young femme had her optics glued on a brightly colored butterfly, "So pretty," she whispered not wanting it to fly away.

Jetstorm jumped on her, "Got you!"

Emberwing stopped herself from landing on the butterfly with a grunt, "Jetstorm, I wasn't ready," she whined as she watched the butterfly fly away.

"That's the whole point of sneaking up on someone."

"Can we try again?"

"Sure, close your optics and count to ten," he told her as he quietly went to a different shelf. Emberwing did as she was told and started counting. Jetstorm hid and waited. She stopped counting and looked up at the sky, "She's like me and Slipstream, can't keep focused on anything," Jetstorm whispered to himself.

Her ear twitched slightly when she heard something from behind her, turning around she couldn't see anything. Jetstorm had moved over and was silently walking up to her. The wind slowly picked up, sniffing the air she looked around, her ears on alert. Jetstorm ran up on her. Quickly getting up, being mindful of her injured leg, she tried to move out of the way. He got her a little bit then fell to the ground.

"Are you okay, Jetstorm?" She asked in concern.

"Yeah," he replies as he gets up.

Emberwing helped him up when Drift and Slipstream made their way over, "Did you find him?"