Life's New Adventures and Secrets

Chapter 17

Emberwing knocked on Arcee and Wheeljack's door, waiting for one of them to answer. Seajumper answered, "Emberwing!"

"Hi, Seajumper. Do you and Nightback want to play? Papa said it was okay."

"He did? You bet we do! Come in," he says as he makes room for her to enter.

Emberwing made her way in, saying hello to Wheeljack and Arcee. Once they were in Seajumper's room, Emberwing was greeted by Nightback, "Your father said you can play with us again?"

"Yeah, I was going to wake up Oka-san but Papa stopped me before I could knock on the door. He said that Oka-san needed to rest because she was still exhausted from yesterday," she replied as she sat on the floor.

"Why? What happened?" Nightback asked.

"They fought some Decepticons. When Bumblebee took me to see them they looked... funny."

"Funny how?"

"Oka-san looked sad. Also, I got up to get some Energon last night and saw Papa sleeping on the couch."

"Wonder why your dad was sleeping on the couch. Hope everything is okay with your parents," Nightback says to Emberwing.

"I hope so too."

"I walked in on my parents kissing earlier, again."

Seajumper sounded disgusted while Emberwing giggled, "You seem to do that a lot."

"Yes, I do."

"How is your mom doing?" Seajumper asked Nightback.

"She seems to be doing better."

"What happened to your mom?" Emberwing asked.

"She got really sick last night and Dad had to take her to Med Bay," Nightback replied.

"Bumblebee came back after dropping you off and I overheard him and my parents talking about your mom and dad. He said they were both poisoned but your mom got the worst of it, he said it was so bad she almost died," Seajumper added.

"Oh man," Emberwing gasped quietly, "Did he say how they got poisoned?"

"That femme they brought in had put poison somewhere on Steeljaw's body and Strongarm got it somehow and got sick."

"I saw two Wolf-Cons yesterday, they put one of them in the stasis pod but the other one was giving Sideswipe a hard time," Emberwing stated, "Do you think they know the femme?"

"I heard the grown-ups say they were all related," Nightback replied.

The three went quiet when they heard a knock at the door, they heard the door open and Nightback heard his dad's voice. He runs out to greet him, "Hi, Dad. Is Mom okay?"

"She is but I need you to go watch over her for a bit while I go for a drive, I need to talk to Thunderhoof but I don't feel comfortable leaving your mother alone in her condition. I want you to watch over her and get her anything she might need as she's too weak to walk and get stuff herself at the moment."

"OK, I'll see you guys later!" Nightback called to his friends as he ran back home to look after his mother.

The two wave at him as he runs off and Steeljaw chuckles, "Alright, I'll see you guys later," he says as he heads out to find Thunderhoof.

Nightback gets home and goes to his parent's room where he finds his mom asleep, he goes in and climbs up onto the berth, laying next to her. Strongarm wakes up and looks at him, "Nightback, what are you doing here? I thought you were with Seajumper."