Firestorm and Nightshade

Chapter Four

Chapter Four-

Firestorm was released from the hospital 3 orns (days) ago and was now sitting beside a window. The mechling was looking out at the setting sun as his right servo rested upon his tank.

"Carrier" Firestorm started, "how long until she's in the world?"

The femme stopped reading her data pad to look at her creation, "'she'? Firestorm you don't know the gender of your sparkling and you won't until at least 4 cycles (weeks) before it's born"

"'It' is a 'she'" the young carrier corrected, "I can feel it"

The femme hummed before nodding, "alright. To answer your question, she with be born in about 45 cycles" (about 10.3562 months)

The mechling groaned, "That Long?! But I wanna see her Now!"

The femme laughed softly and got up before walking to the young mech and placing a servo on his slightly round chassis.

"You must be patient Firestorm" she advised, "if you don't than that can do more harm than good"

Firestorm nodded and stood, "I'm gonna go take a walk. I'll be back before dinner"

The mother smile and nodded, letting her Sparkling go.

The sparked mechling walked to the Crystal Gardens and sat down. He watched the Energon Fountain with a small smile while his hand laid gently on his swollen chamber.

Nightshade finished his training with his Sire and flew to his favorite spot in the Crystal Gardens. He saw his Split-Sparked twin sitting there and smiled before landing and transforming. The older mechling walked forward and sat next to the other.

"What are you going to name it?" he asked softly.

Firestorm looked at him and smiled before shaking his helm, "him."

"Huh?"

"The Sparkling is a him"

Nightshade smiled softly at the determination in his brother's voice and nodded, knowing he couldn't change his mind, even if he tried.

"Alright, what are you going to name him?"

"I don't know yet"

The older nodded in understanding and smiled, "you'll know soon enough"

"Yeah" Firestorm agreed.

-40 Cycles Later-

"Two?!" Firestorm's Sire exclaimed in surprise.

The doctor nodded, "that is correct, one is a femme and the other is a mech. As far as I can tell they will not be Split-Sparked and they are healthy"

Firestorm smiled and looked down at his tank, optics filled with absolute love and adoration.

"Silverdust and Smokescreen"

"Huh?"

The adults and sibling looked at him, confused.

"Their names" Firestorm explained further, "Silverdust for the femme and Smokescreen for the mech"

His Carrier smiled and hugged him, "those are wonderful names"

The brother and Sire soon joined in with the hugging. None of them seeing the doctors crazed gleam in his optics.

~*~

:Autobot HQ:

Ratchet monitored the Autobots life-signals while Moonlasher and Darkshadow got their vehicle modes. The medic noticed that the signals were in the safe zone and turned when he heard the sound of a engine. He saw a silver motorcycle cruiser with blue accents. The motorcycle transformed into Moonlasher.

'Or whoever she really is' Ratchet noted in his mind and frowned when he didn't see Darkshadow or the kids.

"Where are the others?" he questioned.

"Dark' is still looking for an alt. mode so the humans decided to stay with him, the femme, Miko, gave me the coordinates to the base so that I didn't have to ask for a Ground Bridge and, might, interrupt a call from Prime" the femme responded calmly.

The white and orange mech nodded and returned his attention to the screen. He kept an eye on the femme in case if she was a 'Con.

:Ratchet, open up the Ground Bridge. The relic was a trap:

The medic quickly followed the directions and Optimus, Arcee, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee entered. As soon as they were all in base, Ratchet shut the Ground Bridge down. Ratchet led the wounded 'Bots to the Medbay and fixed them up.

~*~

Ratchet laid on his berth, staring at the ceiling and sighed when sleep didn't come to him. He rolled off the metal and headed out of his room. The mech entered the main part of the base and was surprised to see Darkshadow there.

"What are you doing up?"

The other mech let out a startled sound and looked over at the medic in surprise.

"Oh, Ratchet... um.... Just thinking" the warrior explained.

The mech nodded and walked to his computer, "couldn't sleep either?"

"Yeah"

The younger mech nodded and typed in the passcode before selecting a icon on the desktop. He opened a secret compartment and took out to controllers. The medic tossed one at Darkshadow, who caught it, before selecting his player and making a new game.

"What is 'Minecraft'?" Darkshadow asked.

"It's a human game where you build stuff, hunt, mine, fight monsters, and relax" Ratchet explained the best he could, "Rafael installed it when I told him that I never played it before and taught me how to play it. I usually play it with him or when I cannot recharge."

"Sounds... interesting" the other mech said.

Ratchet hummed and explained the controls and how to play. The two played the game, they were sitting on Cybertronian-based beanbags, for the rest of the night. Both of them laughing and having fun. They didn't realize that they had fallen asleep while they were talking about their favorite Cybertronian stories.

Nightshade noticed that Ratchet and Firestorm had the same favorite story when he awoke the next day.

Ratchet realized that Darkshadow and Nightshade loved the same book when he awoke next.

They both brushed it off as a coincidence.